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Britain's Bomb: What's Next? (Book Review), Brian Stiltner
Britain's Bomb: What's Next? (Book Review), Brian Stiltner
Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications
Book review by Brian Stiltner.
Wicker, Brian and Hugh Beach, eds. Britain's Bomb: What Next? London: SCM Press, 2006.
ISBN 9780334040965
By the time this review is published, Tony Blair will no longer be Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He pushed for a decision to be taken by the next general election: he wanted the UK to commit to replacing the current Trident system (a stock of 58 missiles and under 200 warheads, some of these housed on four nuclear submarines) with a new generation of nuclear weapons and submarines. The British Trident submarines are scheduled for retirement between …