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The nuclear submarine debate has moved on rather…

Been looking through some old copies of Liberator from the 1970s this afternoon. December 1974 particularly caught my eye as it has a piece arguing how expensive and wasteful Britain’s nuclear deterrent was.

All rather similar to contemporary arguments over the cost of replacing Trident, save that the cost of the then Polaris submarines was compared to the cost of … building a new town.

You could get two new towns for one Polaris submarine and still have £18 million in change apparently.

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