Tony Blair and Gordon Brown are wrong to replace Trident submarines and missiles.
All parties on Oxford City Council voted overwhelmingly a few weeks ago to ask the Labour Government not to renew Britain's weapons of mass destruction.
The Non-Proliferation Treaty commits all countries with nuclear weapons to negotiate their complete removal.
How can we expect North Korea or Iran to say 'no' to nuclear weapons when this country plans to waste £25bn of taxpayers' money on re-arming with nuclear?
Trident was introduced to deter the Soviet Union during the Cold War and is completely outdated.
Nuclear missiles are completely useless in stopping suicide bombers on the London Underground or planes crashed by fanatics into New York skyscrapers.
In the very unlikely event of a rogue nation threatening to nuke Britain, collective security is much better than a so-called independent nuclear weapon.
In an uncertain world, the only certainty is that nuclear weapons are ineffective, immoral and very expensive.
JOHN TANNER (Councillor) Littlemore ward Oxford City Council
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