The Slow Boat to Unilateralism
In response to Malcolm Chalmers’ article in the December 2013 edition of the RUSI Journal, Julian Lewis MP argues that abandoning continuous at-sea deterrence is a step too far down the ‘nuclear ladder’.
Trident: White Elephant or Black Hole?
Abstract Britain has possessed its own nuclear weapons for just over fifty years and is laying plans to keep them going for the next half-century. Hugh Beach argues that there are better things to spend government money on and the Trident replacement programme should be cancelled.
A World Free of Nuclear Weapons
nuclear weapons today present tremendous dangers, but also an historic opportunity. U.S. leadership will be required to take the world to the next stage—to a solid consensus for reversing reliance on nuclear weapons globally as a vital contribution to preventing their proliferation into potentially dangerous hands, and ultimately ending them as a threat to the world. Nuclear weapons were essential to maintaining international security during the Cold War because they were a means of deterrence. The end of the Cold War made the doctrine of mutual Soviet-American deterrence obsolete. Deter-