Whilst vilifying Iran we upgrade our Weapons of Mass destruction - which Masses are we intent on destroying ???

Trident: the done deal
Robert Fox in the New Statesman ( Monday 13th June 2005 )was far seeing and far sighted ... and confirmed by the
mad Scotsman from Kirkcaldy at the Mansion House tonight.

Trident: the done deal

" While country, party and Parliament wonder whether Britain needs nukes at all, Blair and Brown have agreed in secret. A new (and more frightening) arsenal is on its way.

The acting continues, but the pretence is over. It is expected that, in the next few months, Tony Blair will announce that the British government will fork out tens of billions of pounds for a new generation of British nuclear weapons to replace the ageing Trident D5 missiles ( each 100-kiloton (kT) warheads – equivalent to 380 Hiroshima bombs) and our four Vanguard Class submarines. The outcry from vocal sections of the public has already been discounted in Whitehall. The deed, I am told, is done. But you will not find any-one prepared to admit it.

So far, the only public pronouncement has been Labour's 2005 election manifesto, which declares delphically: "We are committed to retaining the independent nuclear deterrent and we will continue to work, both bilaterally and through the UN, to urge states not yet party to non-proliferation treaties . . . to join."

This is one of those rare issues where Tony Blair and Gordon Brown see eye to eye.

.... Failure to replace Trident would leave the perfidious French as the only fully functioning nuclear performer in western Europe - the Russians with their rusting arsenal seem to count only as a bargain-basement warehouse for would-be terrorists.

"If Britain stops now, it leaves France as the only serious European nuclear power," says a former defence chief. "In present circumstances, no prime minister would contemplate that."

A done deal ... except of course it is not as the BBC said tonight, and as Tony keeps repeating, an INDEPENDENT system , the bit that explodes horribly killing thousands, ven hundreds of thousands is owned, maintained and onlty operates when the US Administration
says so.

Viz . .... 1998 Strategic Defence Review. Paragraph 60 states: "Progress on arms control is . . . an important objective of foreign and defence policy. Nevertheless, while large nuclear arsenals and risks of proliferation remain, our minimum deterrent remains a necessary element of our security." Paragraph 62 goes on: "With the withdrawal of the last RAF WE177 bombs . . . Trident is our only nuclear weapon. We need to ensure that it can remain an effective deterrent for up to 30 years." ... 2032.

See Lord Patel Feb 16th 2006 Trident/Vanguard ... a nuclear deterrant ?

Also re the imminent nuking of Pyongyang after all the bollocks about DPRK going to launch a "missile"... and the yen falls to lowest ever against the Euro.

North Korea - USAF keeps a watch April 20th 2006
Nuking Iran. The Drumbeat is more insistent April 12th
Sayonara Iraq, G'bye Okinawa, .. when do we bomb Pyongyang ? Wednesday, May 3