The pros and cons of Trident

Amid growing fears of an international nuclear conflict, is now the time to renew or scrap?

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Already strained international tensions in the Middle East have reached breaking point in the past few years, with the US, UK, Russia, Iran, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Yemen all caught in an increasingly chaotic web of alliances and rivalries.

Tens of thousands of people have already died as a result of fighting in the region over the past decade, and increasingly bellicose rhetoric between world leaders has fuelled fears that even more bloodshed is to come. According to Renata Dwan, director of the UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), the risk of nuclear weapons being used is at its highest since the Second World War.

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