UK Navy’s Public Brawl over Responsibility for Nuclear Mass Destruction By John LaForge / CounterPunch, Aug 19, 2021 In a rare, public dispute between British Naval officers over legal responsibility for attacks using nuclear weapons, two retired British submarine commanders…
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10 Reasons Why the Decision to Increase the Number of UK’s Nuclear Warheads is Wrong
Commander Rob Forsyth, Royal Navy (Ret’d) writes on why the UK decision to proliferate its nuclear weapons is so very wrong
Nuclear Weapons and International Law 2020 Conference Report by Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy & Global Security Institute
On November 12, 2020, the International Section of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA Int’l), Lawyers Committee On Nuclear Policy (LCNP), and Global Security Institute (GSI) hosted an all-day virtual conference on nuclear weapons and international law. An exceptional…
Nuclear Weapons Are Banned! What Does This Mean For Britain?
With the TPNW in force Acronym explains what this means for Britain.
Open Letter to Boris Johnson PM on 30th November 2020 from Trident Ploughshares.
RESPECT THE LAW: DISMANTLE THE UK’S NUCLEAR WEAPONS 30th November 2020 Dear Prime Minister, On 18th March 1998 Trident Ploughshares wrote an Open Letter to the Prime Minister (then Tony Blair) asking that his government respect the law and dismantle…
Former nuclear submariner asks:’Why Trident?’
“The theory of nuclear deterrence is flawed, unproven and poses significant dangers from accidental use.” Commander Robert Forsyth. Commander Rob Forsyth RN (Ret’d), former Executive Officer of the Polaris missile submarine HMS Repulse in the 1970s, was one of the…
Ex Royal Navy Commanders question Trident need as coronavirus costs rise
Article in the Plymouth Herald 1st April 2020. See https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/ex-royal-navy-commanders-question-4011611 They say spending billions deploying and modernising the nuclear Continuous At Sea Deterrent is ‘completely unacceptable’ when UK faces COVID-19 threats Three former Royal Navy Commanders are among those calling…
Rob Edwards Ferret article of 10th Feb 2020
Trident commanders ‘not legally responsible’ for nuclear attack https://theferret.scot/trident-submarine-commanders-responsible-nuclear/ Rob Edwards Trident submarine commanders unleashing a nuclear attack cannot be held responsible under law for their actions, according to the Ministry of Defence’s former nuclear policy chief. Rear Admiral John…
Reply from the MoD to Commander Forsyth on 13th February 2020
Dear Commander Forsyth, Thank you for your most recent letter, dated 9 January 2020, regarding comments made by Rear Admiral John Gower (Rtd) in relation to the legal standing of a submarine commander given the order to fire a Trident…
Letter to the MoD from Commander R Forsyth RN (Ret’d) 9th January 2020
9 January 2020 Dear Director General In correspondence with your Directorate between November 2017 and December 2018, I sought to establish how a Trident SSBN Commanding Officer (CO) on receipt of a fire order could be confident that he is…