Trident can be stopped | IMGpapers 1980

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THE TORIES are to backs? Unfortunately not.

Ten billion pounds

could help to rebuild the shattered lives of hundreds of thousands of working people. But intended use threatens the lives of us all. For it will be spent on sne latest and most dangerous escalation of the nuclear arms drivespend £10 billion on Scotland. Does this mean an end to the present wave of redundancies and social service cutTrident.

Trident is four nuclear submarines each carrying 16 D5 missiles, fourteen independentlytargeted warheads. a staggering total of 896 potential COll pared with 64 for the present Polaris submarine.

Common sense - and a calculator — will tell you this is a fourteen-fold increase. But the Ministry of Defence begs to differ. According to its crazy logic. the number of 'systems submarines will remain the same so there's no inCreaSe.

Yet at the same time it insists on a seven-fold expansion of the naval base at couport to cope Trident. And it won't hold 11 B00 100 01 because it would be toc long drawn out. So much for the democracy which Trident supposedly needed to defend.

But then democracy motivates Reagan and Thatcher, for their bleatings over Their concern is to wage war on all who are fighting for an end to the oppression exploitation of the imperialist system.

The gaff was blown on what's really at stake over Trident by Sunday Times coresponcem Joan connell in a front page article on 21 February.

Connell reported that the US is prepared to make a string of concessions on price and manfuacturing to persuade the Tories to go ahead with the D5 version of Trident. What it expects in return is quite simple: British support for aggressive policy As one source explain ed to Connell: *This titude administrtion...is conditioned the way the UK acts in the wider defence interests of the Alliance and the US More crudely, it put to Connell that the Trident deal meant agreement Britain to undertake other military activities which find favour in foreign ministration american ministration and gress at- Mentioned in this Bri by frigates and maritime crat on patror in Ene of Oman. But exam abound. The latest is was participation of Bri ships Operation Pass off the coast of Ci There's just one problem for Reagan Thatcher in all this: can't get working per