The Government are procuring 80 additional warheads for Trident to stockpile in Scotland, each more than eight times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The Minister must know that by increasing these weapons of mass destruction, his Government are pushing at a new nuclear arms race and ending 30 years of gradual nuclear disarmament. Is that what global Britain is all about?
Defence and Security Industrial Strategy
Proceeding contribution from
Drew Hendry
(Scottish National Party)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 23 March 2021.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Defence and Security Industrial Strategy.
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