The truth about Trident

Frank Boulton welcomes a new book on the case against Trident

Royal Navy submarine HMS Victorious departs HMNB Clyde. | Photo: www.defenceimagery.mod.uk/fotoweb/ fwbin/download.dll/45153802.jpg

In December 2006 Tony Blair’s government published The Future of the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Deterrent. It was clear to a bitterly disappointed anti-nuclear movement that a decision to replace Trident had already been taken. The only question was: when? The Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government was coy on the timing; the junior partner’s (Lib Dems) Trident Alternatives Review concluded that some sort of replacement was desirable, though not necessarily on a ‘like-for-like’ basis of four subs, of which at least one was always deployed at sea (‘continuous-at-sea’ deterrence – CASD).

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