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On 08/06/2016 00:59, Les Hellawell wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jun 2016 05:12:42 -0700 (PDT), Robert Carnegie
> <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:
>


>>
>> Okay, maybe it is possible to launch an American
>
> made missile with British made
>
>> nuclear
>
> weapons
>
>> missile to attack America.  But I think
>> I won't do it until I have more than one of them.
>
> It would be madness and mass murder to launch such a vile
> thing anywhere. We should scrap the damn things not renew
> them as is currently planned. They never served any useful purpose and
> young men should not be wasting their lives sat in submarines in the
> depths of our oceans for months on end. We have far far better things
> to spent our hard earned money on. (cue usual statement about how many
> NHS hospitals we could build instead).

In a world with only two superpowers, our trifling arsenal only served a 
very marginal purpose if at all.


But today?  Nations with nuclear capability are proliferating -- and so 
is the threat.  It isn't so long ago that two demented dictators in the 
Middle East (Hussein and Gaddhafi) were actively working on developing a 
nuclear arsenal capable of hitting the UK.  Without the means of 
responding to that threat in kind, those loonytunes might well have 
ended up using their weapons, either as a threat or by launching them. 
For such nations, the old rule of Mutually Assured Destruction still holds.

Aside from all that, I am unhappy at leaving even more of our nation's 
security up to the Yanks.



>
> As it is they wll probably cost a fortune to dispose of.

We dispose of our old warheads quite routinely, and replace them with 
new ones.

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Re: hey Brits! Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> - 2016-06-06 04:08 -0700
  Re: hey Brits! Smiler <smiler@jo.king> - 2016-06-06 14:51 +0000
    Re: hey Brits! Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> - 2016-06-06 09:35 -0700
      Re: hey Brits! Smiler <smiler@jo.king> - 2016-06-06 19:05 +0000
        Re: hey Brits! Les Hellawell <les@shant.tell> - 2016-06-06 20:30 +0100
          Re: hey Brits! Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> - 2016-06-07 05:12 -0700
            Re: hey Brits! Les Hellawell <les@shant.tell> - 2016-06-07 15:59 +0100
              Re: hey Brits! "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-06-08 09:34 +1000
                Re: hey Brits! Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 03:12 -0700
                Re: hey Brits! Malcolm McMahon <malcolm.mc74@googlemail.com> - 2016-06-08 05:47 -0700
                Re: hey Brits! "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-06-09 18:41 +1000
            Re: hey Brits! "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-06-08 09:25 +1000
              Re: hey Brits! Smiler <smiler@jo.king> - 2016-06-08 19:03 +0000
      Re: hey Brits! "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-06-07 09:15 +1000

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