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rastari said:

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rastari said:
Nothing discussed wasn't already mentioned in the manifesto's, So it was a fairly useless debate really. It would of been nice if they had been asked questions about subjects that haven't been discussed alot this election tbh. Although imo clegg won that one he was more direct with the audience and managed to separate himself from the other two more, I agree with cleggs views on getting rid of trident 100 billion is a hell of a lot of money too spend renewing some missiles we won't ever need.

Its a deterent. We don't plan on using them. It's just to send a message to N.Korea and Iran that if they mess around with us or any of our Allies, they would get the shit blown out of them.

The world is fragile and this protection is needed. I guess you would say lets not have police walking around the streets? Or maybe we should not have an army?

As has already been stated we could blow the shit out of them without the need to spend 100 billion updated our nuclear weapons (which aren't exactly the most eco freindly of things and have a ridicoulous half life.) the world isn't that fragile tbh, We aren't going to be attacked by iran or N.korea our regular army is enough of an deterent to ensure this (We are actually more of a threat to them). And if the world is fragile it's because people keep on making more nuclear weapons, You wander why N.korea and Iran want nuclear weapons it's because USA are walking around with a ton of them and are a massive threat to the middle east.

The money will be spent on either replacing or prolonging the Vangaurd Class submarines which are the delivery system for the missiles not on the actual weapons themselves (the total number we have will likely be cut). Where is this £100Bn figure from? The replacemnt of the subs is projected to cost up to £20Bn at most afaik (less if only 3 new subs are built instead of 4).

The question for me on this issue is whether there is another method of delivery that could be use that can reduce these costs. I guess the issue with land based launchers is that they are susceptible to attack.

 

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It's a bit of a leap to suggest that just because some people believe in nuclear disarmament that they are some kind of tree-hugging pacifists.