Where abouts are our Nukes?

[:Ace:]

I just read Englishbirds thread and that got me wondering, where abouts are our Nuclear Weapons? Are they in the mountains somewhere or out at sea? hmm. Does anybody know?

Thanks

[bluejonjo]

Airbases and in Nuclear subs.

[Ward-Minter]

perhaps they are at Greenham Common under the new business park??

[Oneeyedvic]

isn't it Tracy Island?

[jump79]

In subs. - the (main) naval base being in Scotland.....
(I googled it)
http://abolition2000europe.org/index.php?op=ViewArticle& amp;articleId=108&blogId=1

[jump79]

Oh, and here's a handy map... http://www.abolition2000europe.org/map/


and you thought they kept it top secret.

[jno]

10CSt, I don't know, but it would actually seem sensible to keep them at sea. It means mainland Britain doesn't become a pre-emptive target; and it means they can be moved closer to their own targets (eg Argentina during the Falklands war, I imagine).

[spacechimp]

The Falklands war, now that was a brilliant piece of luck.

[jno]

I don't know about luck spacechimp... The UK government had been talking about cutting the size of the military, as I recall, and wondering aloud if the Falklands needed defending; so the Argentine junta leapt in. The whole thing could have been averted if Downing St had made its intention to defend the islands clearer from the start. In the end it was so expensive that it would have been cheaper just to give a million pounds to every islander and let them go where they wanted.

[isca]

it would have been cheaper to move the falklands bit by bit to just off the coast of scotland...

[johnlambert]

spacechimp, luck? the Argentinians were beaten by vastly superior British soldiers, airmen, sailors and the will to win at all costs. Luck played no part in the conflict whatsoever

[gary baldy]

Britain no longer has any nuclear 'air drop' or ICBMs. All our nuclear capability is covered by Trident - the submarine based missle launch system.

[nedflanders]

1. They are in our submarines. Either at sea or docked in Faslane or Coulport (conveniently as far away from London as possible)

2. jno - All major cities/airports in the UK are pre-emptive targets end of.

[Englishbird]

According to the article I linked to, they're in America - really handy.

"The controversy is set to ignite this week with an embarrassing report by the Foreign Policy Centre (FPC), set up under Blair�s patronage, calling for Trident to be scrapped and not replaced.

On Tuesday the defence select committee will take evidence from experts, most of whom are expected to say that there is no need for a new nuclear deterrent.

The FPC report says that Britain�s independent deterrent is an illusion. The missiles are stored in the United States and have to be collected by a British submarine before it goes on patrol"

[spacechimp]

Johnlambert, from what I have only recently heard, Argentinian bombs hit almost every British ship, but they failed to explode; that is luck in my mind. It was of course a great bit of patriotic propaganda.

Giving every islander a million pounds would still have cost us a very important strategic outpost.

[spacechimp]

Apparently, at least six bombs penetrated the hulls of British ships without detonating.

[johnlambert]

that wasnt luck, it was incompetence on the Argentinian armourers side. Like the Argie pilot who fired a heat seeking missile at a British Harrier jump jet, missed, his target, then turned back to argentina, flicked on his afterburner and got exploded by his own missile.

Anyway our nukes are in secret locations, we dont want lunatics like Ward-Minter knowing where they are now do we?

[pappasmurf]

If I told you, I'd have to kill you.

[spacechimp]

Well, it had very little to do with the skill of our servicemen and women then did it...?

[isca]

loosehead, strategic outpost my ar*e. its about as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike. we have several other small island in the south atlantic that would be equally useful/useless if needed. that war was fought to win maggie an election and everybody knows it....