Trident: this £100bn Armageddon weapon won't make us one jot safer | Simon Jenkins

The consensus among the three main parties on Trident merely illustrates that the defence lobby scares politicians stupid

It must rank as the daftest, costliest question in British politics. How many Trident submarines does Britain need? Medieval schoolmen sharpened their brains by counting angels on pinheads. British policymakers sharpen theirs by counting warheads on missiles. They know it is irrational but the money, the language, the whiz-bangs, the uniforms turn their...