Defence secretary dismisses Labour leader’s ‘extremely dangerous’ proposal to build subs without nuclear weaponsThe defence secretary,Michael Fallon, has dismissed Jeremy Corbyn’s proposed compromise on the Trident nuclear weapons programme in which submarines would be retained but recede to sea without warheads as “pointless”, and comparing it to going into a fight with an imitation gun.
Fallon was speaking after a tour of HMS Vigilant,one of the UK’s four submarines that carry Trident missiles capped with nuclear warheads, docked at Faslane naval base on the river Clyde in Scotland.
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Source: theguardian.com