Nuclear submarines - the ultimate insurance ?
* 12:00 09 December 2006
Every minute of every day a British submarine armed with up to 48 nuclear warheads, each capable of destroying a city, is on patrol somewhere under the world’s oceans. And that’s how Tony Blair wants it to stay.
The underlying aim of the British prime minister’s decision to replace the country’s ageing Trident-armed submarines, announced this week, is to maintain "continuous deterrent patrols" for the next 50 years. (...)