William Hague has announced to Parliament that the new coalition government intends to reveal the size of the UK's nuclear arsenal and that it will review policies on the use of nuclear weapons.
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Labour’s legacy means it is even more imperative to include Trident in the defence review.
A report in the Irish Independent newspaper reveals that, in post-election negotiations with the Liberal Democrats, the Labour party was prepared to make concessions in its position over Trident replacement.
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NIS video blog: the new coalition government and nuclear weapons
Our new video blog shows an interview with NIS Director Peter Burt
about the new Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition government's
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Fox announces that Strategic Defence Review begins immediately. But what place Trident?
NIS researcher Steve Hendry assesses how the new Conservative – Liberal Democrat government is dealing with the issue of Trident replacement.
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Will US cost-cutting threaten the UK’s Trident replacement programme?
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates – sceptical about Trident replacement
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We’re already forking out a third of a million every day to replace Trident
With nuclear weapons and the huge cost of replacing Trident rapidly moving up the election agenda, advoc
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You can’t slip a Rizla between Labour and the Tories on nuclear weapons
As the three party leaders slug it out on prime-time television, another pre-election debate has shown just how out of touch with reality the main parties are when it comes to defence and nuclear weapons.
Just before the first of the three televised debates between Gordon Brown, David Cameron, and Nick Clegg was broadcast I went along to a debate where figures from each of the main parties were discussing defence issues.
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Why the main parties won’t be mentioning Trident
A general election will be called this week, and we can look forward to a month of frantic political campaigning before voting day on May 6th . With the economy still very weak it's a certainty that all the political parties will be focusing on their economic policies Cuts in spending to balance the national deficit are likely to be a hot topic of debate, but I'm willing to bet that the three main parties will want to say very much less about nuclear weapons and Trident replacement.
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Watch our new video blog about President Obama’s arms control agenda
Our new video blog shows an interview with NIS Director Peter Burt about the implications of the new US-Russia START arms control treaty and the contradictions in President Obama's arms control programme.
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Defence Review must consider Trident nuclear weapons
The UK's nuclear weapons must be included in the post-election Strategic Defence Review, says the Nuclear Information Service (NIS) in a formal response to the government's recent Defence Green Paper.
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NIS Update: February / March 2010
DEFENCE GREEN PAPER SETS THE STAGE FOR STRATEGIC DEFENCE REVIEW
At the beginning of February the Ministry of Defence published the Green Paper 'Adaptability and Partnership: Issues for the Strategic Defence Review', outlining a series of key questions on defence issues that will need to be addressed by the next government.
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Fox and Fairlie: Two contrasting meetings
I sat in on two very different meetings on Thursday. The first, in the morning, was the more formal of the two: a lecture by Dr Liam Fox, the Conservative Party's defence spokesperson, hosted by the Politeia think tank at their London HQ.