British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says his country will not unilaterally reduce its nuclear weapon cache unless other countries engage in disarmament. According to Press TV, the British premier said in Italy on Thursday “Unilateral action by the United Kingdom would not be seen as the best way.”
Brown told journalists present at the G8 summit in the quake-stricken city of L’Aquila that his country will not negotiate its 160 strategic nuclear warheads, and Trident missiles capable of launch from nuclear submarines, should other countries continue their pursuit of nuclear weapons.
He stressed that London would not “revisit the decision to press ahead with a replacement for the Trident nuclear weapons system.”
The British premier added “What we need is collective action by the nuclear weapons powers to say that we are prepared to reduce our nuclear weapons, but we need assurances also that other countries will not proliferate them.”