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The worst thing about politicians who are in favour of nuclear weapons is that when they're asked to explain a situation when they'd use them (which is fair enough), they always give a really vague answer that they'd do it to protect people etc. Granted, I'm not expecting them to say, "We'll bomb Russia.", but seriously, if you're going to criticise someone else for refusing to use them, at least try and outline a situation in which you would.
Yep. It's very easy to talk in vague terms about protecting our citizens. If you support nuclear weapons as a deterrent then you quite simply must be willing to say "I would launch a nuclear strike against Russia if they had launched an attack on us". You must be willing to kill 100,000s of people in retaliation for killing 100,000s of our citizens. I'm not necessarily opposed to Trident but I don't think I could do that.