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Let’s clear away the Trident delusion

Posted by seumasach on April 6, 2015

Dan Plesch

Independent

19th September, 2010

‘Britain’s ability to continue with nuclear weapons without US support becomes very slim to the point of invisibility”, the Conservative defence specialist Dr Julian Lewis MP admitted in 2005 when addressing a conference in Whitehall. Indeed, British nuclear weapons rely on “American goodwill” according to Colin Gray, a strategist favoured by both President Bush Snr and Mrs Thatcher.

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