The truth about Trident

Frank Boulton welcomes a new book on the case against Trident

by Frank Boulton 2nd December 2016

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).