Gordon Prentice
Labour, Pendle
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, The Secretary of State for Defence
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.
Yes10 people think so
No2 people think not
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