A Trident D5 missile launched from HMS Vengeance, a Royal Navy Vanguard-class
ballistic missile submarine, malfunctioned during a "DASO- Demonstration
and Shakedown Operation". The test launch took place off the coast of Florida
USA in June last year. The missile had no warheads fitted and the
automatic safety systems changed the missile's trajectory, off from its range
and eastwards away from the American continent. It crashed harmlessly into the Atlantic
Ocean . Oddly enough the government made no public statement until
January... after the crucial Commons
vote to renew the UK 's
independent sea-based nuclear deterrent, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/britain-renews-trident.html.
Why? As we can see here, the Prime Minister Theresa May doggedly evades the
question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WlVMeIEYpk.
Source: https://www.rt.com/uk/374703-british-trident-test-failure/.
Despite the fact that this was a minor incident and nobody was in any danger,
it concerns me because the Trident system is such a devastating weapon. This is
not just from its own destructive power, and each missile has fifty to a
hundred times the yield of the Hiroshima
bomb; but also because its use will trigger an instant and equal response from any
nation attacked by it, thereby sending the whole world spiralling into nuclear
war. In my view, a simple mistake is by far the most likely cause of any global
nuclear exchange. In the event of such a blunder, how many missiles will fly
and how many millions of people killed before somebody sticks up their hand and
says: "Oops!... Sorry."? This is one of the many reasons Trident
should not be renewed. In fact the existing system should be scrapped before
it's too late.
See here for
essential background: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/replacing-trident.html.
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