Trident

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Defence – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 3 March 1992.

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Photo of Mr Tom King Mr Tom King The Secretary of State for Defence 12:00, 3 March 1992

If the hon. Gentleman seriously does not understand that point, he had better talk to President Yeltsin, who does. President Yeltsin, as he made clear outside No. 10 Downing street, understands that the position of a super-power which has 30,000 nuclear weapons is different from the position of the United Kingdom which will have as an absolute maximum only 128 warheads per submarine. There is no comparison, as President Yeltsin recognises. Indeed, his ambition is to move down now to a minimum deterrent. His idea of a minimum deterrent is to maintain 2,500 warheads.