Today Centre Forum published the report ‘Retiring Trident: An alternative proposal for UK nuclear deterrence’ by Toby Fenwick. This report is an important and timely contribution to the debate on options facing an incoming government. BASIC does not endorse this option specifically, though the paper is well argued and an excellent response to those who assert that like-for-like replacement of Trident is the only credible nuclear weapons option for the United Kingdom.
UK Nuclear Weapons Policy and Diplomacy
Trident – UK’s Instruments of Armageddon
In Dissident Voice, Jim McCluskey wrote about Trident, citing BASIC's Trident Commission report.
Read the full article here: http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/01/trident-uks-instruments-of-armageddon/
Election 2015: finally our chance to ditch Trident
BASIC Executive Director Paul Ingram wrote an article in The Ecologist about Trident in the upcoming general election.
Read the full article here: http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2725836/election_2015_finally_our_chance_to_ditch_trident.html
Trident: Parliament debates £100bn project – at last
Ewan Macaskill and Richard Norton-Taylor wrote an article in The Guardian about the Trident debate, citing BASIC's Trident Commission report which called the UK's nuclear deterrent “a hostage to American goodwil.”
Read the full article here: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/defence-and-security-blog/2015/jan/20/trident-uk-s-nuclear-arsenal-commons-debate
Warwick University: We need to talk…about nukes
BASIC and WMD Awareness teamed up with the Politics and International Studies Department at Warwick University to host the third Talking Trident event on 15 January 2015.
We still have choices about Trident replacement
BASIC's Executive Director wrote a peice for Left Foot Forward questioning the patrolling of nuclear weapons when currently we face no strategic threat.
British nukes, Ebola threat & Scottish oil
Paul Ingram was interviewed by Afshin Rattansi from Going Underground. It was about Britain's nuclear capability to which Paul said “the reason we have nuclear weapons is to stay close to the Americans.”
The government faces difficult questions on Trident after the election
This article was written by Paul Ingram and was published on the Left Foot Forward. The article talks about the decisions the British government has to face over Trident after the Scottish referendum.