Trident

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Defence – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 19 November 1991.

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Photo of Mr Dick Douglas Mr Dick Douglas , Dunfermline West 12:00, 19 November 1991

Having made a comparison with Polaris, how does the Minister reconcile having a strategic deterrent which is primarily devoted to NATO purposes when NATO is abandoning nuclear weapons to a considerable degree and when NATO per se would have no Soviet target for Trident?