The Cuban missile crisis showed that having nuclear warheads aimed a specific targets prevented an attack. Russia's bluff was called. Yes, I'm looking back, but if we don't learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it.
Is the world any safer now? No, I would say it's less safe. Trident is one...
It's because of NATO, that we can have Trident. It's a facile argument that it hasn't acted as a deterrent. It has, & been successful as a deterrent. Nuclear weapons can take out one city at a time, so an attack could wipe out Manchester, for example. How many people would die before we...