SNP in practice

[TheFaQQer]

Run for the hills!

As long as you don't run through the woodlands at Harrowdown Hill...

[MicrosoftBob]

Yes they would be less likely.

Having WMDs makes us a target because the first thing anyone attacking would do is try to stop you retaliating by taking out your weapons first. If we don't have them then they would point their weapons at the countries who do.

Anyway, the minute someone sends a nuclear missile in anger means game over for all of us whether we have WMDs or not.

That's the point of the subs, there's always a few at sea at undisclosed locations to make it harder to take them out first, how are they going to take out our weapons if they don't know where they are ?

[Batcher]

I already have, why do you think I live up a mountain

If anything kicks off I've got a bolt hole away from any potential nuclear strike sites, civil unrest etc

Just to point out that Chernobyl happened a long way away but lambs in Scotland and Wales had to be removed from the food chain due to the fallout.

It would be a whole lot worse if the strike happened on the west coast of Scotland so having a bolt hole in Wales wouldn't really help you.

[Batcher]

That's the point of the subs, there's always a few at sea at undisclosed locations to make it harder to take them out first, how are they going to take out our weapons if they don't know where they are ?

We would have one sub with a small number of warheads at sea at any one time. The rest are being maintained/stored in Scotland so it would still be a target to stop the one sub reloading.

[TestMangler]

Just to point out that Chernobyl happened a long way away but lambs in Scotland and Wales had to be removed from the food chain due to the fallout.

It would be a whole lot worse if the strike happened on the west coast of Scotland so having a bolt hole in Wales wouldn't really help you.

But at least when global warming takes sea levels up 3M in the next couple of years, he can sit in his house and watch the English drown

[MicrosoftBob]

But at least when global warming takes sea levels up 3M in the next couple of years, he can sit in his house and watch the English drown

I don't want that, most of my contract work is in England

[TheFaQQer]

And Iraq have nuclear weapons that could be deployed against the UK within 45 mins !!!

[Batcher]

Although widely reported that is not actually true.

Again you come out with absolute rubbish without thinking of using Google first.

House of Commons - Defence - Written Evidence

The fact that, in theory, the British Prime Minister could give the order to fire Trident missiles without getting prior approval from the White House has allowed the UK to maintain the façade of being a global military power. In practice, though, it is difficult to conceive of any situation in which a Prime Minister would fire Trident without prior US approval. The USA would see such an act as cutting across its self-declared prerogative as the world's policeman, and would almost certainly make the UK pay a high price for its presumption. The fact that the UK is completely technically dependent on the USA for the maintenance of the Trident system means that one way the USA could show its displeasure would be to cut off the technical support needed for the UK to continue to send Trident to sea.

[TestMangler]

I don't want that, most of my contract work is in England

Only work in tall buildings then

[Batcher]

But at least when global warming takes sea levels up 3M in the next couple of years, he can sit in his house and watch the English drown

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