On 18/11/2015 01:19, Brian Reay wrote:
Roger Hayter wrote:

The UK nuclear weapons are firmly under the control of the Americans
anyway, so I don't think we have them for other than ceremonial and
solidarity reasons. They're not cheap either.

So which bits did the Americans control, exactly? After all, if you know
so much, you could tell us. Otherwise it is just bovine muck.

Well, seeing as how you are an expert in the analysis of newspaper
stories, you might recall in the aftermath of the Falklands war it was
mentioned, probably in one of the Sunday heavies, that at one of the
early crisis meetings to discuss the UK's options the nuking of the city
of Cordoba was mentioned. ISTR it being said that the idea was dropped
when it was allegedly discovered that the US wouldn't give us the
targeting codes.

Next time you're in the British Library looking for local newspaper
reports of dogs, you might care to spend some time looking for something
a little more serious. It might help you to stop looking like a
small-minded fool.


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Spike

"Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles
with all its might against the attempts of crime"

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