{"id":3055,"date":"2009-11-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/oct-28-2009-meeting-in-uk-parliament-against-the-trident-nuclear-weapons-system\/"},"modified":"2009-11-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T00:00:00","slug":"oct-28-2009-meeting-in-uk-parliament-against-the-trident-nuclear-weapons-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2009\/11\/oct-28-2009-meeting-in-uk-parliament-against-the-trident-nuclear-weapons-system\/","title":{"rendered":"OCT 28 2009 MEETING IN UK PARLIAMENT AGAINST THE TRIDENT NUCLEAR WEAPONS SYSTEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[Editor&rsquo;s Note: The Trident missile is a multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) designed by Lockheed Martin Space Systems in the United States which is armed with nuclear warheads and is launched from nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs). Trident missiles are carried by fourteen active US Navy Ohio class submarines, with U.S.-designed warheads, and four Royal Navy Vanguard class submarines, with British warheads. &#8211;Wikipedia]<br \/><\/em><br \/>The meeting asked why the Government was considering spending &pound;97 billion over 30 years on renewing the Trident nuclear weapons system while British state pensioners are among the poorest in the developed world. <\/p>\n<p>Speakers included: <\/p>\n<p>Louise Edge, Disarmament Campaigner from Greenpeace who wrote their &quot;In the Firing Line&quot; &#8211; an investigation into the hidden cost of the supercarrier project and replacing Trident&quot; report; <\/p>\n<p>Jim McCluskey, author of &quot;The Nuclear Threat &#8211; accidents, misjudgements, and mega foul-ups;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>David Drew MP, member of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Ageing and Older People; and <\/p>\n<p>Diana Basterfield from ministry for peace.<br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ourtaxesourlives.org\/\" ><br \/>CONTINUE READING IN THE ORIGINAL &ndash; OUR TAXES, OUR LIVES<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor&rsquo;s Note: The Trident missile is a multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) designed by Lockheed Martin Space Systems in the United States which is armed with nuclear warheads and is launched from nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs). Trident missiles are carried by fourteen active US Navy Ohio class submarines, with U.S.-designed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}