Non-proliferation groups call on government not to oppose creation of a study into effects of nuclear conflict
HMS Vigilant, one of the UK's four nuclear warhead-carrying submarines. Observers believe the UK position could be the result of a pact with France to fend off criticism of their nuclear arsenals.HMS Vigilant, one of the UK's four nuclear warhead-carrying submarines. Observers believe the UK position could be the result of a pact with France to fend off criticism of their nuclear arsenals.
“People naively thought that, with a Labour government, you would see a shift away from this kind of weird line that the UK has taken on this particular type of thing,” said Patricia Lewis, the head of the international security programme at the Chatham House thinktank.
Observers believe the UK position could be the result of a pact with France to fend off criticism of their nuclear arsenals. Some arms control experts were still hoping on Thursday that the British policy had remained unchanged from the previous Tory government through sheer inertia and could still change if the matter gained the attention of the Labour leadership at the 11th hour.
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