2005 / 2006 / 2023 This report provides a comprehensive review of the future of the UK’s nuclear weapons. It identifies and clarifies key issues from an abolitionist perspective, bringing together technical information on Trident and nuclear planning systems. By John Ainslie Download if the embedded viewer has a problem
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Disarming Trident
2012 A practical guide to deactivating and dismantling the Scottish-based Trident nuclear weapon system. By John Ainslie Download if the embedded viewer has a problem
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Trident: Nowhere To Go (2nd edition)
2013 A landmark report examining potential alternative UK nuclear weapons bases if Faslane became unavailable following Scottish independence. It demonstrates that there would be no meaningful alternative – suggesting that Independence could hold the key to unravelling the whole of the UK’s nuclear programme. By John Ainslie Download if the embedded viewer has a problem
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Unacceptable Damage
2013 This report examines the “damage criteria” used by the MOD in planning the UK’s nuclear weapons programme and more recent replacements, and how a desire for particular weapons systems has reshaped the amount of damage considered acceptable. By John Ainslie Download if the embedded viewer has a problem
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If Britain Fired Trident
2013 A study of the humanitarian consequences of a nuclear attack by one Trident submarine on likely primary targets in and around Moscow. By John Ainslie Download if the embedded viewer has a problem
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No Place for Trident
2014 An exploration of the likely outcomes for the UK’s Trident nuclear weapons programme, if Scotland were to vote for independence in 2014. By John Ainslie Download if the embedded viewer has a problem
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Trident: Strategic Dependence & Sovereignty (with Dan Plesch)
2016 This report argues that successive UK governments have deceived the public by pretending Trident was a British bomb when it is actually American. By John Ainslie Download if the embedded viewer has a problem
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Trident Shambles
March, 2016 This report explores the many controversies and problems involving the Trident renewal programme. Trident is a huge and very expensive project which has been badly managed. The Ministry of Defence have also significantly downplayed Trident’s true cost and underestimated how long it will take to build nuclear-armed submarines. By John Ainslie Download if […]
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John Ainslie ‘Notes, Defe 23-355.’
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John Ainslie ‘Notes, Defe 19-180, SSBN.’
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‘Email from “Brian”, Digitised files.’
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Uk Ministry of Defence, Top Secret, ‘ATOMIC, The Bomber Force and Skybolt, DEFE 25/335.’
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