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THE US government plunged deeper yesterday into the row over whether to replace the submarines that carry the Trident nuclear missile, reiterating its support for Britain’s atomic arsenal.
Westminster is preparing to replace its fleet of Vanguard-class nuclear submarines, based at Faslane on the river Clyde, with new vessels to be jointly developed with Washington to carry the existing US-manufactured Trident D5 missile.
The intervention, after the Scottish Parliament voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to call for the scrapping of the Successor programme, recognises the growing opposition to atomic weapons.
SOLOMON HUGHES explains how the PM is channelling the spirit of Reagan and Thatcher with a ‘two-tier’ nuclear deterrent, whose Greenham Common predecessor was eventually fought off by a bunch of ‘punks and crazies’
