So Foolestroupe the Natural Resources Defense Council are a bunch of "neo-cons (Bushites supporters)" who put out a report some years ago which stated that Russia had more nuclear weapons than the USA. I think that you'll have to work damn hard to show proof of that.

Quite a number of years ago F, more than twenty. And in this arms race that you allude to over 65% of the nuclear weapons in existence were decommissioned - Matter of record and treaty obligations (SALT & START). The thing that brought all this to a halt was the emergence of India and Pakistan as nuclear powers.

The UK by the way, as much as CND protesters, MGOH, the BBC, etc bang on about it, are not developing a new generation of Trident missiles. What the current Labour Government are planning to do is replace the submarines that carry the existing missiles. In the process Britain will reduce the number of warheads from around 200 to about 150.

Question for you. Do you believe that Iran's nuclear programme is entirely peaceful? A simple Yes or No will suffice.