No case for Trident renewal – Alex Salmond’s Courier column
ByThe Courier Reporter
Activities took place this week to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on August 6, 2015 in Hiroshima, Japan. Japan marks the 70th anniversary of the first atomic bomb that was dropped by the United States on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Alex Salmond says the anniversary is a timely reminder of the need to scrap the UK's nuclear weapons.
Alex Salmond argues that the UK should scrap the Trident nuclear deterrent system in his exclusive Courier column.
Writing in the wake of the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Scotland’s former First Minister says the system is too costly and ineffective,
He writes: “There would be no better way to respect the anniversary of the devastation wreaked by the first two bombs of the nuclear age than for this country to similarly join the world’s 190 nonnuclear armed countries to reject as an obscenity the very idea that we should be lumbered for the next half century with our very own weapons of mass destruction on the River Clyde.”
Read Alex Salmond’s exclusive column in Monday’s Courier.
No case for Trident renewal – Alex Salmond’s Courier column
