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FOLLOWING this week’s failure by the Liberal Democrats to adopt an unambiguous anti-Trident policy, Labour will get the chance next week to start changing the political weather — by abandoning its unthinking addiction to the so-called nuclear deterrent.
The party’s association with these terrible weapons goes back more than half a century. It was of course the Clement Attlee government that began secretly developing them.
Even then the decision was all about the supposed prestige associated with such an indiscriminately destructive arsenal, rather than any assessment of how useful it was.
We need a government that invests in saving lives not destroying them, argues SOPHIE BOLT
Expanding Britain’s nuclear capability increases the risk of nuclear confrontation. It does not keep us safe – it makes us a target, argues CAROL TURNER
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
