Gordon Brown to announce a cut to the UK nuclear fleet

[M_B]

I'm not convinced it's worth the money to maintain a nuclear deterrent in Trident form. Everybody assumes it's Trident or nothing, but we can maintain nuclear without Trident. From an operational standpoint, we can **** a country with nuclear cruise, equally as well as we can **** it with ICBMs.

However, I think nuclear cruise missiles are banned at the moment (not sure though) so there would be some politicking to get around that hurdle.

We don't have those anymore as we scrapped them in our agreement to have Trident.

As for Trident, we can't launch any of them without prior US approval. Our nuclear independence has been a myth for some time.

[BrilloPad]

I can hardly believe what I am hearing.

Trident fleet to be cut Gordon Brown to announce.
Linky (the Telegraph)

I am not saying that it is a bad thing. It is just that the reason for the cuts is much more likely to be because the country can't afford to run them any more.

I can see that. You can see that. The rest of the whole frickin world can see that and is unlikely to give us much credit for it.

What's that sound? Is that the sound of the rest of the world laughing at us? What has this country come to?

About time too. This country cant keep spending beyond its means.

[Moscow Mule]

Roughly since about 1958 or so. With the demise of Yellow Sun Mk I.

You could get a nuclear version of Tomahawk.

Whether we had any of those or not is a national secret

[TimberWolf]

It's basically a contest between propping up house prices forever or protecting the realm. No contest really. Boomed.