Public Sector Cuts and Job Losses.

[Whitterz]

Pisses me off they spent £2 Billion on that bloody aircraft carrier. Pffft

 

[raymondbriggs]

yes we can if they ever think several megaton warheads will be detonating over their cities if they threaten the same, do you not think the cold war was won through the threat of mutually assured destruction?

may I remind the learned gentleman that I wrote THE book about post apocaliptic Britain.

And ask, Trident-Britains Independant Nuclear Deterent-Can we (should we wish,or the need arise,perhaps in the event of a Muslim lead millitary coup) use this American made and controlled missile system to attack the United States?
The correct answer is no,we buy the system and make the Submarines but good old Uncle Sam controls the launch codes and Britains so called INDEPENDANT NUCLEAR DETERANT is exposed for what it truely is,a subsidised backwater,a hugely expensive but in the grand scheme of things,largely irrelevant arm of America's Nuclear Arsenal.

Britains Nuclear Arsenal can only be truely independant if we can use it against any percieved enemy,even a former friend should the need arise.
Scrap Trident now.

 

[looney]

may I remind the learned gentleman that I wrote THE book about post apocaliptic Britain.

And ask, Trident-Britains Independant Nuclear Deterent-Can we (should we wish,or the need arise,perhaps in the event of a Muslim lead millitary coup) use this American made and controlled missile system to attack the United States?
The correct answer is no,we buy the system and make the Submarines but good old Uncle Sam controls the launch codes and Britains so called INDEPENDANT NUCLEAR DETERANT is exposed for what it truely is,a subsidised backwater,a hugely expensive but in the grand scheme of things,largely irrelevant arm of America's Nuclear Arsenal.

Britains Nuclear Arsenal can only be truely independant if we can use it against any percieved enemy,even a former friend should the need arise.
Scrap Trident now.

Trident II is fully independent nuclear deterent. Its a widley repeated myth that We need the permission of the USA to fire it.

"Supporters say it is still essential that the UK should maintain its independent nuclear arsenal. "

BBC NEWS | UK | Generals in 'scrap Trident' call


Here is the source of the myth.
New Statesman - Trident: we've been conned again

"The independent British nuclear deterrent is a myth - whatever else it may be, it is not independent. That reality, laid bare as never before in US presidential directives published on our website, renders meaningless the government's suggestion that it is time to renew "our" nuclear arsenal.

For decades, American presidents have been authorising US weapons-makers to ship vital bomb components to Britain. George Bush Sr was one of them: in July 1991, for example, he signed a five-year directive ordering the United States department of energy to "produce additional nuclear weapons parts as necessary for transfer to the United Kingdom"."

This is an argument about procurement, wereas you and other idiots morph it into....

"e buy the system and make the Submarines but good old Uncle Sam controls the launch codes and Britains so called INDEPENDANT NUCLEAR DETERANT i"

The truth is you are so astoundingly ignorant and lazy you didn't even bother to look up wether the Trident systems require launch codes.

"The precise details of how a British Prime Minister would authorise a nuclear strike remain secret, although the principles of the Trident control system is believed to be based on the plan set up for Polaris in 1968, which has now been declassified. A closed-circuit television system was set up between 10 Downing Street and the Polaris Control Officer at the Northwood headquarters of the Royal Navy. Both the Prime Minister and the Polaris Control Officer would be able to see each other on their monitors when the command was given. If the link failed – for instance during a nuclear attack or when the PM was away from Downing Street – the Prime Minister would send an authentication code which could be verified at Northwood. The Commander in Chief would then broadcast a firing order to the Polaris submarines via the Very Low Frequency radio station at Rugby. The UK has not deployed control equipment requiring codes to be sent before weapons can be used, such as the U.S. Permissive Action Link, which if installed would preclude the possibility that military officers could launch British nuclear weapons without authorisation."

Nuclear weapons and the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Bad luck enigma, owned again.