Results 1-15 of 15 for trident speaker:Peter Kilfoyle

Royal Assent: Defence in the UK (26 Mar 2009) has video

Peter Kilfoyle: ...fairly outspoken. I would far sooner listen to people who have been on the front line than the armchair generals of the television studios or newspaper columns. Ted Postol, the man who designed the Trident system, has pointed out that it could be adapted for the needs of our country, if that is what we wish, instead of spending an as yet indeterminate sum replacing it.

United States Missile Defence Shield (4 Feb 2009) has video

Peter Kilfoyle: ...to take it out in the course of its flight. It has been likened to a bullet hitting a bullet at about 1,600 kph. Over the years I have conversed with people such as Ted Postol, who was the father of the Trident missile system, and Dick Garwin, who started his professional life as a weapons expert on the H-bomb. One would associate both those men, by their own admission, with the right of...

Written Answers — Defence: Trident (26 Nov 2008)

Peter Kilfoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence with reference to the statement by the then Foreign Secretary on 14 March 2007, Official Report, column 309, on Trident, what reports his Department has made on the Trident programme in the last six months; and when he plans to make the next regular report to Parliament.

Written Answers — Defence: Trident (26 Nov 2008)

Peter Kilfoyle: ...State in his Department to the Public Accounts Committee on 19th November 2008 on the UK's Future Nuclear Deterrent Capability, what the approved procedure is for the initial gateway report on the Trident replacement programme; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Defence: Trident (26 Nov 2008)

Peter Kilfoyle: ...Under-Secretary of State in his Department to the Public Accounts Committee on 19th November 2008 on the UK's Future Nuclear Deterrent Capability, what the reasons are for the delay on the (a) Trident replacement programmes and (b) Astute-class submarine programme at Barrow; what estimate he has made of the additional costs arising from these delays; and if he will make a statement.

Point of Order: Trident (14 Mar 2007)

Peter Kilfoyle: ...s paper will agree that he appeared before it. However, Dick Garwin did not speak, as someone claimed he did, only on behalf of Philip Coyle; he also spoke on behalf of Ted Postol, who designed the Trident system in the first place, and Frank von Hippel, who was one of the designers of the warheads that we copy. I have to say that if eminent scientists are giving advice—they actually...

Points of Order: Defence in the World (1 Feb 2007)

Peter Kilfoyle: ...of bases around its southern flank, so it is not surprising that it does not feel especially sanguine about the disarmament that the rest of us aspire to. Most of all, I want to speak about the Trident programme. I was disappointed that the Secretary of State devoted only 2 minutes of his 51-minute speech to that programme. I understood the reasons that he gave, even though they had to be...

Point of Order: Iraq and the wider Middle East (24 Jan 2007)

Peter Kilfoyle: That is absolutely the case. Countries around the world are looking at what we are proposing to do with Trident, for example. What does that have to do with reducing nuclear armaments? Some years ago, I was speaking to a defence Minister in China. I told him that I had seen an alleged CIA report, stating that on the back of progress in the American missile defence programme, China had...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Trident (4 Dec 2006)

Peter Kilfoyle: ...that Theodore Postol is a professor of physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also the former United States official responsible for the development and implementation of the Trident II system. He told me at the weekend that the American equivalent of the Vanguard class of submarine, the Ohio class, lasted 45 years despite having twice as much sea time as our boats, and...

Written Answers — Defence: Nuclear Weapons (28 Nov 2005)

Peter Kilfoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what discussions he has had with the US Administration on the replacement of Trident.

Written Answers — Defence: Nuclear Weapons (28 Nov 2005)

Peter Kilfoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on his plans to facilitate a national debate on the replacement for Trident.

Written Answers — Defence: Nuclear Weapons (28 Nov 2005)

Peter Kilfoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what estimates he has made of the likely cost of replacing Trident, broken down by cost of new (a) platforms, (b) delivery systems and (c) warheads.

Defence in the United Kingdom (17 Nov 2005)

Peter Kilfoyle: ...need for a great and open debate on policing in this country. His speech reminded me that the Secretary of State for Defence recently said that there should be a national debate about what replaces Trident, and I want to discuss the changed circumstances and whether we need to replace Trident. The strategic defence review reported in 1998. The House of Commons Library note on the review...

Defence in the United Kingdom (17 Nov 2005)

Peter Kilfoyle: ...in March 2003 to consider our changing circumstances, but unfortunately it was not taken up politically. We are in a different world. The Government have to show us what enemy, real or potential, Trident would be aimed at, and how that fits in with the emphasis on asymmetrical warfare that was mentioned in the future risk assessment. The stuff that Kitson predicted many years ago about the...

National Missile Defence (16 Jan 2002)

Mr Peter Kilfoyle: ...the Scientific American of August 1999, which contains an article entitled "Why National Missile Defence Won't Work", written by three authors. One of them is Theodore Postol, who developed the Trident 2 missile system. He is not a peacenik or naive about such matters, but he felt compelled to write to the White House and to contribute to the article to express his concerns about the...