Scrap Trident nuclear programme, protesters demand

[iandhr]

2. I am glad that an ally like the UK has independent nuclear capability.

People like this have their heads in the clouds. However I would be all for reducing the number of nukes (e.g. START with Russia) When it comes to the power to destroy the world once is enough.

I am against the building of a doomsday machine however.

"RAND strategist Herman Kahn proposed a "Doomsday Machine" in 1960 that would consist of a computer linked to a stockpile of hydrogen bombs, programmed to detonate them all and bathe the planet in nuclear fallout at the signal of an impending nuclear attack from another nation. The key aspect of the doomsday device's deterrent factor is that it would go off automatically without human aid and despite human intervention, providing a highly credible threat that would dissuade attackers and avoid the dangerous game of brinkmanship that brought the United States and the Soviet Union closer to nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_device