Results 1-20 of 32 for trident speaker:Gavin Strang

Nuclear Weapons Proliferation (9 Jul 2009) has video

Gavin Strang: ...work, if dissenting parties can point to the failure of the nuclear weapons states to make progress towards disarmament. At this point, I will restate my own view that the UK's decision to replace Trident is a setback.

Nuclear Weapons Proliferation (9 Jul 2009) has video

Gavin Strang: ...Labour Members—about the September decision. I do not quite see why it has to be made in September and I would like to think that there could be some movement on this point. We know that the Trident replacement bid is a big issue that will not go away—far from it, as it seems to be getting more and more prominent for a range of reasons. My view, like that of my hon. Friend, I...

Point of Order: Trident (14 Mar 2007)

Gavin Strang: ...is the time when Britain should be taking the initiative to encourage nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. It is profoundly depressing that the Government want to procure a new generation of Trident. The decision to buy a new generation of Trident would damage non-proliferation efforts. After all, we have an obligation to move towards complete disarmament, and making provision to...

Non-Proliferation Treaty (26 Oct 2005)

Gavin Strang: ...there is a danger that our insistence on non-proliferation will not carry adequate credibility with the non-nuclear states. In that context, I gently put it to my hon. Friend that a decision to replace Trident would further weaken the credibility of our case for stronger non-proliferation measures and would be seen as yet more evidence that the countries that had nuclear weapons at the...

Opposition Day: Intermediate Nuclear Weapons (9 Mar 1987)

Dr Gavin Strang: ...the Soviet Union was prepared to set on one side the existence of the French and British strategic nuclear weapons, provided that they were not expanded and that we did not replace Polaris with Trident. In Reykjavik, the Soviet Union was dropping any link between British and French nuclear weapons and INF. We are now discussing the removal from the Reykjavik package the proposal that...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Trident (9 Dec 1986)

Dr Gavin Strang: Will the Minister spare us the hypocrisy about Trident jobs and recognise that every £1 million spent on Trident facilities on Clydeside would create many more jobs if it was invested in socially useful jobs in the construction industry, the Health Service or education? Will he also recognise that thousands of millions of pounds are being spent on American technology and American jobs,...

Defence: First Day's Debate (30 Jun 1986)

Dr Gavin Strang: ...or so—we shall almost certainly see a change in the bipartisan policy which has applied to defence matters since the second world war. The Labour party is committed firmly to cancelling Trident and decommissioning Polaris. Much more significant, it is committed to the removal of all American nuclear bases from Britain.

Defence: First Day's Debate (30 Jun 1986)

Dr Gavin Strang: ...American argument that they want to keep testing the weapons for storage reasons, and so on. The Americans want to test for SDI. They plan a nuclear pump for the X-ray lasers. We want to test the Trident warheads. It is fitting that the Government initiated a test last week, just before this debate. A comprehensive test ban treaty is important because it will help to put the brake on the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Trident (11 Mar 1986)

Dr Gavin Strang: ...nulear missiles provided that they did not modernise them? Is it not a scandal that the Government have vetoed that proposal by rejecting out of hand the suggestion that we should not go ahead with Trident?

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Nuclear Weapons (Policy) (14 Jan 1986)

Dr Gavin Strang: Does the right hon. Gentleman accept that the deployment of highly accurate counter-force weapons, such as Trident, is destabilising because it creates the fear on the other side that such weapons might be used in a first strike and thus increases the chance of nuclear weapons being used sooner rather than later in a crisis?

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Arms Control (26 Nov 1985)

Dr Gavin Strang: ...forces in Europe? In that context, is it not unreasonable to expect the Soviet Union simply to ignore Britain's missiles? Will the Government review their policy of refusing to count Polaris or Trident among the number of missiles and warheads in Europe?

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: first day's debate (12 Jun 1985)

Dr Gavin Strang: ...has long since been undermined by technology—for example, the development of accurate counter-force weapons, which by definition are first-strike weapons. As counter-force weapons such as the Trident D5 system have undermined the deterrence element in mutually assured destruction, so is the strategic defence initiative enormously destabilising. I assert categorically that there is a...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Trident (26 Feb 1985)

Dr Gavin Strang: Has the Secretary of State noticed the growing opposition to Trident within the British establishment — within senior military circles and the Tory party? Will he at least admit to the House this afternoon that on the basis of yesterday's dollar-sterling rate Trident will cost more than £10,000 million and that more than half of that will be spent on American jobs and technology?

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Trident (29 Jan 1985)

Dr Gavin Strang: asked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will now announce his revised estimate of the cost of Trident.

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Trident Missile (11 Dec 1984)

Dr Gavin Strang: ...for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours) contrast sharply with the assurances that he and his predecessor gave to British contractors? Is it not now clear that about half the colossal expenditure on Trident will go on American technology and jobs? How many hundreds of thousands of jobs might be created in this country if that £5,000 million or thereabouts were spent in Britain?

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Trident (26 Jun 1984)

Dr Gavin Strang: asked the Secretary of State for Defence whether there will be any change in the targeting policy or strategy of the United Kingdom's strategic forces as a result of the Trident acquisition.

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Trident (26 Jun 1984)

Dr Gavin Strang: Will the Secretary of State acknowledge that the Trident 2D5, unlike Polaris, has the capability to destroy Soviet missiles in their silos? While that may not be the British Government's purpose, is not the fact that it has that capability enormously destabilising?

Rate Support Grant (Scotland) (31 Jan 1984)

Dr Gavin Strang: ...dole or on a youth training scheme. In addition, we have a Government with a grotesque sense of priorities. They are prepared to spend £800 million on the Falklands airport, and 10,000 million on Trident — that massive escalation of nuclear weaponry that will be based on the Clyde. We are fundamentally opposed to the Government's policy towards local government. It is a bit...

Intermediate Nuclear Forces (31 Oct 1983)

Dr Gavin Strang: ...That means that counter-force weapons are by definition first-strike weapons. That is what is so terrifying about the decision to deploy the American cruise missiles and to replace Polaris with the Trident 2D5 weapon system. It is also a counter-force system. It is also designed to have the accuracy to destroy the Soviet missiles in their silos.

Intermediate Nuclear Forces (31 Oct 1983)

Dr Gavin Strang: ...are being deployed specifically to destroy the other side's military installations and nuclear missiles. Even if it is not the Government's intention to fire their missiles first or to use the Trident 2D5 weapon system as a first-strike system, the reality is that the Soviet Union perceives that they are counter-force weapons and that they are designed to have the accuracy to take out its...