In this Vice News article on the future of Trident, BASIC’s Executive Director Paul Ingram is quoted, “The Ministry of Defense cannot afford Trident plus all of its other missions. So there is indeed a direct choice to be made between having a brand spanking new nuclear weapons system that nobody expects to use, or hope is never used, and being a country that has conventional forces that has relevance on the world stage.”
Read the full article here: https://news.vice.com/article/the-uks-next-leader-is-going-to-face-some-serious-questions-on-nukes