OK, let’s cut to the chase – let’s not get bogged down in statistics or projected spending figures or discussions about “initial gates” and “main gates” (more about them later): Trident is a nuclear weapons system and nuclear weapons are WRONG. Wrong enough to be the primary justification for the war in Iraq. Wrong enough for the International Court of Justice to state, in 1996, that the threat or use of nuclear weapons would, in most cases, violate the Geneva Convention, the Hague Convention, the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and for Rabinder Singh, QC and Christine Chinkin of Matrix Chambers to argue, in December 2005, that “the replacement of Trident is likely
to constitute a breach of Article VI of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty”.
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