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I know Gordon Brown's was appalling.....do you remember he wrote a hand written letter to the parents of a deceased servicemen from Afghanistan and the mother complained she could hardly read it. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8351883.stm Thank goodness the subs captain didn't have to open up his...

Nope, seen various TV programs about our submarines that carrier the nuclear warheads. The captain was interviewed and basically he says he has an unopened hand written letter from the PM and in the event of war and all communication with the chain of command being lost i.e the UK being wiped...

Let me give an example of how I think it deters. Between 1915 and 1945 enemies of Britain's launched bombers over our country and bombed all of our major cities. After 1945 and for the next 70 years up to today, that has not occured once even though another enemy of ours, the (former) Soviet...

But I am not quite sure you see the point of what they truly primarily are. In that they are the ultimate deterent. It is the THREAT of a nuclear strike that stops a conventional war for example a seabourne invasion of the British Isles (a scenario Britain faced in 1940). The question no-one...

Yes. The deterent is the fact that our Prime Minister has the option to use it, as a last resort. In theory any enemy of the future, Russia, China, an Islamic superstate (for examples) could overrun continental Europe and could be massed at Calais. Their leader will know that if they approve...