From: Ad 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/20/ntrident20.xml

"Britain cannot expect other countries to refrain from acquiring
nuclear weapons if it upgrades the Trident deterrent, the head of the
International Atomic Energy Agency said yesterday.

Mohammed ElBaradei, who has led the United Nations' nuclear watchdog for 10
years, cast doubt on his own moral authority in seeking to curb the
ambitions of countries like Iran, suspected of seeking nuclear weapons.

"They are told nuclear weapons are counter-productive because they do
not protect your security," said Mr ElBaradei in a lecture at the
London School of Economics.

"But when they look to the big boys, what do they see? They see
increasing reliance on nuclear weapons for security, they see nuclear
weapons being continually modernised."

He also condemned the "unfairness" of a world in which nine
countries seek to maintain their monopoly of nuclear weapons.

"How do they expect this system of haves and have nots to be
sustainable? How do I go to country X and say 'you should keep your
obligation not to develop nuclear weapons', when the big powers are making
no progress towards their obligations for disarmament?"

The nuclear non-proliferation treaty, which came into effect in 1970 and
which Mr ElBaradei is legally obliged to enforce, bans all signatories from
using atomic power for military purposes.

In addition, the declared nuclear powers are obliged to disarm — but no
deadline is given for this to take place.

Mr ElBaradei said that Britain cannot "modernise its Trident
submarines and then tell everyone else that nuclear weapons are not needed
in the future"."

Quick way to sort the problem for the UK.....tie up the Vanguards.

i..e what need replacing are the subs & the subs are stressed by use.
Find a nice remote sealoch & use the V-Class as stationery missile
silos.

There is absolutely no need for any country's SSBN's to be at sea inc the UK's.

The first stage of getting the nuclear powers to come within the NPT (as
opposed to their almost complete breaching of it now) is to bring all the
SSBN'es into port anyway.

Adam

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