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Wednesday, 21st November 2007

The motion: Britain Doesn’t Need Trident

Harrowing stuff. Helena Kennedy QC began by invoking the memory of Hiroshima. ‘Peeling skin, melting eyeballs. People on pavements vomiting and waiting for death.’ Though she made the pacifist argument Lady Kennedy wasn’t suggesting that to scrap Trident was ‘some wild left-wing peacenik plan’. She cited conservative figures like Simon Jenkins and Lord Bramall, a former defence chief of staff, who both oppose renewing the nuclear deterrent.

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November 23rd, 2007 10:41pm

it is incorrect than we import warheads from the us.the warheads are british.the trident missiles are american build and are shared between the british and US ssbn

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