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Post-cold war generation 'more likely' to oppose nuclear weapons

Researchers find young people oppose scale of Trident programme and disagree with government claim that it is a nuclear 'deterrent'

People who grew up after the end of the cold war are more likely to oppose nuclear weapons than their elders, researchers said yesterday.

Only 19 per cent of 18 to 35-year-olds think the Trident nuclear missile programme should be renewed at its current size and capacity compared to 33 per cent aged 36 and over.

And 47 per cent of the younger group directly disagree with government claims that nuclear weapons protect us from modern-day threats like terrorism.

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