Interesting Links for 17-03-2021
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andrewducker- Boris Johnson violating international law with plan to build more nuclear weapons
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- England will still unlock slowly despite vaccinating faster than government assumed
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- First Scottish wildcat arrives at 'breed and release' centre in the Highlands
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- What's next for Scotland's lockdown? (Looks like we're starting to open up from the start of April)
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- New protest laws go too far and are not needed, police commissioners say
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- New French coronavirus variant isn't detected by standard tests
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- Evangelical Christians are, unsurprisingly, in favour of LGBT "conversation therapy"
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- Foreign secretary says UK will trade with countries which fail to meet human rights standards
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- Youths attack eight buses with rocks in Edinburgh
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- The Ideas That Are Reshaping The Democratic Party And America
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- Government plans to change London mayor elections to First Past the Post
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- Blue Monday - but Star Wars
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- French MPs back law to introduce age of sexual consent
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- Breaking the code of silence over sexual violence at elite French universities
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- Thieves, robbers and burglars to be fitted with GPS tags on release from prison
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- Uber to pay drivers a minimum wage, holiday pay and pensions
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- This is why you keep forgetting what you were doing when you enter a new room
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- One year with Long Covid
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- 18 people charged after spate of attacks on Lothian buses in Edinburgh
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- Lothian Buses not running after 19:30 tonight
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Date: 2021-03-17 08:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-03-17 08:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-03-18 01:52 am (UTC)If there was a fear that the delivery system would be intercepted, that could be a justification for more weapons - but it'd be better to invest in superior next-generation delivery systems, which could also be used for conventional weapons systems.
Violating the NPT, along with saying you'd consider using nuclear weapons against countries without them, is just going to make Iran redouble their efforts to build nuclear weapons.
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Date: 2021-03-18 01:41 am (UTC)I have no words to express my concern that a government official actually said this.