Trident

[bullmoose88]

We're talking about Trident SLBMs right (D-5s)?

What exactly is the protocol if you guys needed to use them...could you fire them on your own or do you need our permission (which seems on the surface, kinda like a crappy deal for you)

[bullmoose88]

We're talking about Trident SLBMs right (D-5s)?

Er... the nuke things. I don't know about the letters and numbers because I'm not obsessed with things that are designed kill a lot of people.

Well..SLBM=Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile...D-5 being the revision/model...blah blah blah...I was a real nerd as a child.

Sorry about the terminology, I figured it might clarify my question.

Do either you know what the protocol is for release of your sub missiles? Do you have to ask our permission since I think we technically loan you the actual missile?

[bullmoose88]

Well..SLBM=Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile...

Submarine? Yes then.

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No. But something mentioned in the debate is "independent nuclear deterrent".

Wouldn't that be an interesting conversation...blair/brown/cameron calling GWB at 1am (since W goes to bed around 9) asking W if they can use the missile.

dear lord...

[bullmoose88]

RENEW TRIDENT!

Hearing Labour backbenchers on Radio 4 saying that we should, in effect, implement unilateral nuclear disarmament, is like an old horror movie where an ancient mummy comes back to life, climbs out of its sarcophagus and starts walking around terrifying everybody.

It really pains me sometimes to see how, despite twelve years of New Labour and the Blair revolution, that the unreconstructed left still lives on. I can never understand why the electoral poison of early-1980s retropolitics holds such an enduring emotional appeal for so many people in our party.

It defies belief that when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Iran is tooling up with nuclear weapons, and when Pakistan (inherently unstable and a hotbed of Islamist militancy) has already got one, there are serious politicians in the UK saying that we should get rid of our nuclear deterrent.

I really despair of my party sometimes!

Those are the only two options? Trident or disarm your subfleets? You couldn't build your own missile? or buy them from...gag...the french (EU spirit I guess)?

[bullmoose88]

and I thought this thread was going to be about gum. 

Isn't trident good for your teeth? What would the British want with that?

[bullmoose88]

and I thought this thread was going to be about gum. 

Isn't trident good for your teeth? What would the British want with that?

Didn't you read the post?  That's why they are thinking of getting rid of it.

Touche salesman