TRIDENT REPLACEMENT

Motion Text

That this House welcomes the announcement of a reduction in operational warheads from 160 to 120 in the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) and a delay in the Main Gate decision until 2016; regrets that consideration of the necessity of retaining nuclear weapons was not formally included in the SDSR; notes that the threat of a state-originated nuclear attack on the UK was described as of low likelihood in the National Security Strategy; and therefore calls on the Government to ensure that a full public review of the UK's possession of nuclear weapons is held prior to the Main Gate decision-point.