By the Editor: Over the 60 plus years that the UK has been a nuclear power, the anti-nuclear movement has failed to convince public and political opinion in the UK of their case. You will have read some of their arguments in previous editions of this journal (the second part of one abolitionist’s opinion is published after this article). But a balanced discourse needs to reflect the whole and develop the argument as to why, on balance, this country has decided it must sustain its nuclear deterrent. And from one whose career was dominated by the operation, planning and support of the submarine…
