U.K.’s decision to increase nuclear warhead stockpile cap defies logic

The Westminster government is defying international law— and its own public’s on-record majority opinion against nuclear weapons—as well as provoking the Scottish people, all of which it will regret.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the move will allow the U.K. to amass an nuclear arsenal the size of France's, which is rumoured to possess approximately 300 nuclear warheads.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY ERIKA SIMPSON AND BILL KIDD

March 22, 2021

The U.K. government’s recent decision to increase its nuclear warhead stockpile cap to 260 from 180 nuclear weapons defies logical comprehension, and is dismaying UN supporters worldwid...

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