Opposing Trident
Frank Boulton reflects on the recent Trident Alternatives Review
Earlier this year, in an article in the Friend, Michael Bartlet stated that Trident, Britain’s nuclear deterrent, is obsolete, immoral and a ‘white elephant’. He encouraged Quakers to ask their MPs to ensure a full debate when a formal Trident Alternatives Review was published. Prepared under the auspices of the chief secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander (Liberal Democrat MP for Inverness), its 25,000 words (on fifty-eight pages) were finally published on 16 July and debated in the House of Commons the following evening.
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