Sir, – Rob Forsyth questions the legality of use of nuclear weapons under any circumstances (NR108/1). If the latter was the case, then the many well-resourced international anti- nuclear weapons organisations would have long since made the possession of nuclear weapons enshrined as illegal under International Law. In an article riddled with inaccuracies and flawed assumptions he infers that, should an SSBN CO receive a missile firing order, there should be some form of discussion or debate whether to obey it on grounds of its legality. Of course, this is an absurd proposition. Such a conditio…
