TRIDENT whistleblower William McNeilly warned last night that the nuclear weapons system was a “risk to the people and a risk to the land.” The former nuclear submariner spoke out in an interview with Russia Today before the huge Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) protest today against Tory plans to renew Trident at a cost of £167 billion. Mr McNeilly said that Trident had “huge” disadvantages and argued that rather than acting as a deterrent, the nuclear submarines “create a target” for extremists. He said it was “an attraction to the people who were radicalised to carry out an attack on our homeland that could bring the UK to its knees.”
Morning Star 27th Feb 2016 read more »
While British MPs discuss whether or not to continue with the Trident nuclear weapons system, Royal Navy engineer-turned-whistleblower William McNeilly has opened up about the various security loopholes in the system, pointing out that they make it very easy for anyone to access nuclear weapons.
IB Times 27th Feb 2016 read more »
Kate Hudson: Trident protest: People have died from cuts, but we can afford £183bn on nuclear weapons?
IB Times 27th Feb 2016 read more »
Why is it so important to the US that Britain renew its nuclear weapons of mass destruction? The main purpose of Trident, writes Oliver Tickell, is to allow the UK to join American nuclear attacks, adding ‘legitimacy’ to them and so lowering the threshold for nuclear war – even if it guarantees our own destruction.
Ecologist 26th Feb 2016 read more »
Jeremy Corbyn and anti-Trident members of his shadow Cabinet are “professional posers” who are playing student politics while sipping lattes in Islington, one of Britain’s biggest unions has warned ahead of Labour leader’s CND address. Gary Smith, GMB’s Scottish secretary, said the Labour leader wants workers to lose their jobs with little concern for the consequences and vowed to fight hard against Mr Corbyn over Trident. The Labour leader is on a collision course with his own MPs and two of the biggest trade unions in the country – significant financial backers of his party – because he wants to scrap the nuclear deterrent.
Telegraph 26th Feb 2016 read more »