Letter Dr Julian Lewis, MP Chairman, defence committee, House of Commons: By attending the forthcoming Westminster Abbey service honouring the work of all who have protected this country under the strategic nuclear umbrella of Polaris and Trident, people like me recognise a truth which escapes worthy folk like the Bishop of Colchester (“Row over abbey ‘celebration’ for nuclear weapons”, April 5, and letter, April 6). Far from being “designed to indiscriminately kill and destroy thousands of innocent civilians”, as he asserts, these weapons have been created – and for 50 years successfully deployed by the Royal Navy – to eliminate any realistic possibility of hostile powers threatening to kill millions of British civilians with impunity.
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