No nukes but NATO's says new independence paper
THE removal of nuclear weapons from an independent Scotland would be “no barrier” to the country joining a first-strike alliance, according to a new Scottish government paper published today.
The principle was set out in Scotland’s Place in the World, the SNP-Green Scottish government’s 11th paper in less than two years on what would follow independence.
In the series, civil servants, under the direction of ministers, speculate on policy positions of an imagined government and constitution operating in a state which is not in existence.
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