Oh, get real, Doug! You are so far out of touch with both political and strategic realities that I would think you were living on another planet if I didn't know better.

I think if the UK has anyone in mind in terms of providing a nuclear deterrent against, it would still be the Russians...as a theoretical longshot. The Russians are the only country which might at this time present a real strategic nuclear threat to the UK...IF some sort of world crisis developed which ended up with Russia on the opposite side from the UK and the USA.

Such things can easily happen. Hitler and Stalin were allies and trading partners in 1940 and early '41. They were deadly enemies after June 22/41. That sort of thing can change very fast.

The most non-peace-loving people on Earth these days, in a general sense, are Americans, Doug, because it's the USA that launches pre-emptive wars over WMDs that don't exist, and STILL has the gall to imagine it was justified.