Britain would be left without a nuclear deterrence for at least two decades if Scotland votes for independence in the 2014 referendum, local media reported.
Scottish independence would be interpreted as such that the UK no longer have the capability to house Trident missiles, and it will force the remainder of the UK to abandon nukes for at least two decades, according to report by MPs published in the British media.
In the new report, the Commons Scottish Affairs Committee warned that Edinburgh’s desire to remove Trident submarines from its shores could result in forced nuclear disarmament for the rest of the UK.
“Trident can be deactivated within a matter of days, and the warheads removed within 24 months. In the process, the UK would lose the ability to operate its nuclear deterrent, and effectively be forced into unilateral disarmament for an indeterminate period,” Committee chairman Ian Davidson said.
The committee stipulated that if Scotland removes the nuclear weapons, the construction of the necessary facilities in other parts of the UK could take 20 years.
“A separate Scotland would be presented with a choice over Trident.It could honor the long-standing commitment of the SNP that there should be no nuclear weapons in Scotland and insist on the ‘speediest safe transition’ of Trident from Scotland,” Davidson says.
Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond said earlier that if London was not willing to build a new Trident base within the UK, it had only a few options left: either scrap the entire weapons system or move the missiles to a French or American base.
"They could decide on what would bea much better policy, which would beto decommission the weapons system,” Salmond told the BBC.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/10/30/269614/nuke/

I hope Scotland wins.
About time those extremely lazy Brits stood on their own crippled feet!

Callotti: I hope Scotland wins.
About time those extremely lazy Brits stood on their own crippled feet!