lionmansfieldhttp://lionmansfield.blog.co.uk/en-EUhourly82000-01-01T12:00+00:00lionmansfieldhttp://lionmansfield.blog.co.uk/http://data5.blog.de/design/preview/7b/bf1737f1e68df4de4bf38d340a15c7_160x200.jpgTrident Replacement?http://lionmansfield.blog.co.uk/2006/07/19/trident_replacement~972200/2006-07-19T17:52:21+02:00 <p>The only thing that is certain about Trident’s supposed successor is that the world will have changed by the time it is operational. By then world conflicts and priorities will be quite different. Almost every week there is another scientific pronouncement about the acceleration of climate change. The odds that it will soon dominate human concerns are shortening all the time. It is true there is a finite chance that some time in the future Britain may be under a threat which requires it to have its own nuclear deterrent. But the odds against this happening are high. It would be daft to throw away £20bn on a low risk when the money could be so much better spent on slowing climate change and planning to contain its consequences.
</p>
<p> <small> <a href="http://lionmansfield.blog.co.uk/2006/07/19/trident_replacement~972200/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>The only thing that is certain about Trident’s supposed successor is that the world will have changed by the time it is operational. By then world conflicts and priorities will be quite different. Almost every week there is another scientific pronouncement about the acceleration of climate change. The odds that it will soon dominate human concerns are shortening all the time. It is true there is a finite chance that some time in the future Britain may be under a threat which requires it to have its own nuclear deterrent. But the odds against this happening are high. It would be daft to throw away £20bn on a low risk when the money could be so much better spent on slowing climate change and planning to contain its consequences.