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The costs of replacing Trident

01 Mar 2007

Replacing the UK's Trident nuclear-weapons system would divert the country's declining workforce of physical scientists from tackling global threats such as climate change, argues Stuart Parkinson

Heavy responsibility
This month the UK parliament will vote on one of the most important defence issues the country has f

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Stuart Parkinson is a former physicist and is executive director of Scientists for Global Responsibility
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