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Point of Order: Trident (14 Mar 2007)

Joan Ruddock: Many right hon. and hon. Members tonight have acknowledged that the cold war is over, but the White Paper on the future of Trident is still rooted in cold war thinking. It makes no real analysis of the future role of the US-led and nuclear-armed NATO alliance of which we are a part, nor of the new Europe in which we live. It is a mass of assertions with no attempt to examine how best to...

Point of Order: Trident (14 Mar 2007)

Joan Ruddock: ...and stem the mass migration of people. Britain has made a huge contribution in all those spheres, but we have signally failed to place them in a coherent foreign and security policy. The renewal of Trident depends absolutely on US co-operation. It ties us into a US view of the world, when many of us—perhaps most of us—would prefer a looser relationship and a greater recognition...

Written Answers — Defence: Nuclear Weapons (9 Mar 2007)

Joan Ruddock: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment he has made of the effects of exploding a (a) 0.5 KT, (b) 100 KT and (c) 500 KT nuclear warhead launched from a Trident submarine on to a centre of population density.

Orders of the Day: Adjournment (Summer Recess) (25 Jul 2006)

Joan Ruddock: .... As I said at the beginning of my speech, our Government have led so much of the progressive agenda. So often, however, we adopt contradictory positions. The recently announced proposal to replace Trident represents just such a contradiction. The UK has worked really hard to keep the non-proliferation treaty alive and to find a diplomatic route to containing Iran's nuclear ambitions. In...

Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates: First Day's Debate (19 Oct 1988)

Ms Joan Ruddock: ...of a nuclear-free world by the year 2000, and 98 per cent. showed support for the START proposals for a 50 per cent. cut in strategic systems, despite the implications for Britain's purchase of Trident. The right hon. and learned Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Brittan) has displayed previously unsuspected radical tendencies with his call for a Europe free from short-range nuclear weapons...

Defence: Second Day's Debate (28 Oct 1987)

Ms Joan Ruddock: ...at least analyse the merit of strategies related to such possibilities? I can tell the House why. It is because the Government are committed to a massively expensive useless virility symbol called Trident. Yesterday the Secretary of State declined to answer my question on the circumstances in which Trident would be used. He does not want it on the public record, because a nuclear exchange...

Orders of the Day — Arms Control and Disarmament (Privileges and Immunities) Bill (22 Oct 1987)

Ms Joan Ruddock: ...be welcoming the INF deal. We would be embarking on a process by which, because of our willingness, there would be an end to tactical nuclear weapons in Europe, and by getting rid of Trident we would be giving a major impetus to the strategic weapons reduction to 50 per cent. which the super-powers have expressed themselves willing to undertake. Suddenly, all the debate is about...