The £15 to £20 billion figure stated by the Government and the media hides the real cost of replacing Trident. Using publicly available government figures, including their own running cost estimates, the real cost of replacing Trident is £76 billion. That is equivalent to over £4500 per British family, or approximately 40 per cent of Ministry of Defence conventional weapons purchases each year.
Blair's Bomb: the real financial costs
Publication date:
6 March, 2007
Article tagged as: disarmament, nuclear weapons, peace, reports, trident, WMDs
