Results 1-4 of 4 for trident speaker:Bill Rammell

Non-proliferation Treaty Review (24 Mar 2004)

Mr Bill Rammell: If my hon. Friend will wait, I will happily address Trident, as I did directly to him in the Chamber last week. At the 2005 review conference we will summarise the range of technologies and approaches that have been researched over the five-year programme. The work will provide the basis for methodologies that might be used in the verification regime of any future disarmament treaty. I will...

Non-proliferation Treaty Review (24 Mar 2004)

Mr Bill Rammell: ...undertaken a number of actions, particularly in the past six and a half years, that have made significant progress. First, we have withdrawn and dismantled the RAF's freeform nuclear bomb, so that Trident is now our only nuclear weapons system. We dismantled the last Chevaline warhead in 2002, demonstrating our commitment to irreversibility in the reduction of the UK's nuclear weapons. We...

Nuclear Global Threat (16 Mar 2004)

Mr Bill Rammell: ...we face in the modern world—and the certainty that a number of countries will retain substantial nuclear arsenals, our minimum nuclear deterrent capability, which is currently represented by Trident, is likely to remain a necessary element of our security. We nevertheless continue to support multilateral negotiations towards mutual, balanced and verifiable reductions in nuclear...

Nuclear Global Threat (16 Mar 2004)

Mr Bill Rammell: I am going to discuss the issue of Trident explicitly in a moment. Before I do so, I want to emphasise that all the measures that I have outlined are significant steps that this Labour Government have taken since 1997, in accordance with our NPT obligations. My hon. Friend questioned the legality of our possession of nuclear weapons, but it is very clear, in terms of the view of the...