UK's Nuclear Arsenal - Time to Disarm

In a recent article for The Ecologist, Joss Garman argues that today's security threats cannot be tackled using Cold War weapons.
 
For Garman, it is precisely the irrelevance of Trident that is making it so relevant, drawing in supporters of abolition from across society.
 
For example, Garman references three of Britain’s most prestigious military commanders, who, in a letter to The Times in January, called on the Government to scrap Trident.
 
Field Marshall Lord Bramall, a former chief of defence staff, General Lord Ramsbothom, a former adjutant-general, and General Sir Hugh Beach, former master general of the ordinance, said Trident had become "virtually irrelevant", and argued: "It must be asked in what way, and against whom, our nuclear weapons could be used".
 
Garman also looks at the very real danger of nuclear war, now and in the future- a threat exacerbated by the impact of climate change on communities.
 
He therefore promotes energy independence for Western industrialised nations, such as the US and UK, and investment in renewable energy as a cost-effective means of reducing conflict and instability around the world, rather than further spending on more, truly "useless", nuclear weapons.