Trident is based at the Clyde Naval Base in Scotland (James Glossop/The Times/PA)The UK has had a “massive missed opportunity” to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons, the SNP’s Westminster leader has said. Mr Blackford said: “You’ve got someone [Putin] that you don’t know if they’re prepared to press that button or not. “There’s been a massive missed opportunity over the course of the last decades, because we should have been getting round the table with the Russians and others, and making sure that we were reducing the threat from nuclear weapons, reducing nuclear warheads. “Having nuclear weapons isn’t a protection. Having nuclear weapons makes us a threat and we’ve had a long-standing position that having nuclear weapons on the Clyde is something that we cannot tolerate.”The MP for Ross, Skye and Lochaber said an independent Scotland would “present an opportunity” for other countries to begin to negotiate reductions in their own nuclear warheads.

Source: The Times April 24, 2022 19:14 UTC