Unnecessary evil
The consistent theme here is that the existence of nuclear weapons did nothing to prevent these conflicts.
Mr Gibb also states that “it is a condition of US membership of Nato that European countries maintain a nuclear capability”. That’s odd, because there are seven countries in the world with some kind of nuclear capacity and 29 members of Nato, so something does not add up.
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Hide AdApart from that, the recent past secretary-general of Nato was from Denmark and the current secretary-general is from Norway. Neither country has nuclear weapons, so how on Earth did the US allow it?
Fortunately, if recent polls are taken into account, Mr Gibb and other apologists for this obscene and redundant weapon are in a minority, as 59.9 per cent of Scots citizens have indicated their opposition to Trident.
Mr Gibb is, however, half right: nuclear weapons are evil, but hardly necessary or effective in the current geopolitical situation.
Douglas Turner
Derby Street
Edinburgh