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Tory Defence Secretary Philip Hammond committed the government yesterday to more funding for new Trident nuclear submarines despite growing opposition.
He announced £79 million will be splashed on Britain's "largest and most-advanced boats" in a written annual update on the nuclear weapons programme.
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) pointed out that even former Tory defence minister James Arbuthnot has blasted the decision.
For 80 years, survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have pleaded “never again,” for anyone. But are we listening, asks Linda Pentz Gunter
SOLOMON HUGHES explains how the PM is channelling the spirit of Reagan and Thatcher with a ‘two-tier’ nuclear deterrent, whose Greenham Common predecessor was eventually fought off by a bunch of ‘punks and crazies’