The British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, will announce on Tuesday, March 16, 2021, that UK will increase by “more than 40%” the number of warheads nuclear which is authorized to store, two British media reported Monday.
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Downing Street announced in a statement that Johnson it will present the conclusions of a report on the country’s defense, security and foreign policy in Parliament on Tuesday, which will determine the government’s line for the next decade.
According to the newspapers The Guardian and The Sun, which consulted the 100-page document, the government plans to increase the maximum number of warheads that the country is allowed to store, after it had pledged to reduce its arsenal to 180 ovi by the middle of this decade.
According to the British press, Downing Street invokes a “growing panoply of technological and doctrinal threats” to justify this change, unprecedented since the Cold War.
The report warns of the “realistic possibility” that a terrorist group “succeeds in launching a attack CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear) by 2030 ″ but also against the “active threat” and the “systemic challenge” that they represent respectively Russia Y China.
“A minimal, credible and independent nuclear deterrent, assigned to the defense of the OTAN, it is essential to guarantee our security ”, explains the report.
This change coincides with London’s decision to position itself after Brexit as an unavoidable power on the international scene, according to the concept of “Global Britain”.
This change “violates the commitments that (London) adopted under the non-proliferation treaty. nuclear“, Denounced on Monday in a statement the ICAN (International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons).
“The decision of UK to increase its stockpile of weapons of mass destruction in the midst of a pandemic is irresponsible, dangerous and violates international law “, recalled Beatrice Fihn, director of this NGO.
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) group sees this initiative as a “first step towards a new nuclear arms race” and called it a “huge provocation on the world stage”.
As the world grapples with the pandemic and chaos climateIt is incredible that our government chooses to increase the British nuclear arsenal ”, stressed Secretary General Kate Hudson, for whom“ fueling global tensions and wasting (the) resources is an irresponsible and potentially disastrous approach ”.
With information from AFP
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