Kick out Tory warmongers! SO JOHN MAJOR is going to make defence a central election issue. More precisely the Tories will make a principle of building a fourth Trident nuclear submarine, at fabulous expense. A fourth Trident submarine will ensure that Britain has a nuclear strike capacity of 4,000 Hiroshimas, as opposed to the paltry 3,000 it currently possesses. Doubtless millions of people will sleep more soundly cnowing that! The Tory proposal to buy a fourth Trident is loony -politically and financially. For this devastating arsenal of surprise attack, Britain will be paying 62 million a day for the next twenty years-E15 billion. world power. on conventional weapons! the Soviet Union. SCRAP TRIDENT NOW! Imagine what this extra money would do for the NHS, jobs and education. With the collapse of the Soviet Union the cold war arguments of nuclear deterrence are redundant. The hundreds of nuclear warheads will not be there to defend anyone, but to enable capitalist Britain to pretend to be a Labour will not build a fourth Trident. But the huge cost of the first three will continue to be borne and any saving will be spent The case for billions spent on nuclear submarines is as dead as
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