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U.K. Parliament Approves Nuclear Submarine over Protest

HeadlineMar 15, 2007

In Britain, Prime Minister Tony Blair has won approval for a call to renew Britain’s fleet of nuclear submarines despite a revolt from nearly 90 members of his Labour Party. The program, Trident, has drawn widespread protest. On Wednesday, an unidentified protester spoke out at a naval base in Scotland.

Unidentified protester: “I feel we face the kind of danger that has more to do with changing people’s attitudes and changing people’s attitudes to how they deal with conflict. And in that case I don’t think Trident’s any help whatsoever. It is 75 billion that we could put into education and that we could put into changing attitudes around the world.”

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