Trident and Nukes

Trident
Convoys

Did you know. . .

A British nuclear-powered Trident submarine is out on patrol, submerged, ready, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to fire sixteen nuclear-armed missiles. Each of these 7,400 km-range missiles has three warheads.

And it costs us Ł1.5 billion every year. This year, next year and for the next 30 years. At least.

Each warhead can hit a different target and each has seven times the explosive power of the first atomic bomb, dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

The Hiroshima bomb killed about 140,000 men, women and children.

The United States has between eleven and fifteen nuclear-missile firing submarines out on patrol, France has two and the Russians one or more.

All these submarines are programmed to fire their computer-targeted missiles on receiving a simple radio signal. This is today's reality. Not some future threat. Not some fantasy computer game.