Trident
Defence
Written answers and statements, 11 July 2005
Gordon Prentice (Pendle, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what considerations he took into account in deciding to stop targeting the Trident nuclear deterrent.
John Reid (Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence; Airdrie & Shotts, Labour)
The missiles have been detargetted since 1994. The policy of detargetting the United Kingdom's Trident missiles was confirmed in the 1998 strategic defence review, to reflect improvements in the strategic environment since the end of the cold war.