30 JUNE 2016
Nuclear Brexit
Hugh Gusterson
It looks likely that, if Brexit proceeds, Scotland will withdraw from the United Kingdom, and there is a possibility that Northern Ireland will follow suit.
For 30 years, the Scottish National Party said that an independent Scotland would stay out of NATO. It narrowly reversed that position in 2012, but it remains adamantly opposed to the stationing of any nuclear weapons in Scotland. That could be a problem since all of Britain’s nuclear weapons are stationed in Scotland.
There is no obvious alternative site for them in England.
It is becoming evident that, in addition to all the negative consequences of Brexit opponents warned about, there will be additional unforeseen and unintended consequences that will only become clear over time. In a supreme irony, one of those consequences may be that the English nationalist vote strips Britain of its status as a nuclear power. Those who sought to restore England’s former glory could end up shrinking its military power, thus giving their critics yet another reason to deride them as “Little Englanders.
へええ。
スコットランドと北アイルランも独立しちゃうのか。
でもって、核兵器は、すべてスコットランドにあるが、スコットランドは、核兵器の配備には反対していて、そうなると、イングランドは、自分の領土に核兵器を配備することになるが、それは、かなり金がかかるし、そもそも、代替地が見つかるかどうかもわからん、と。
英国の栄光よ、再びと夢見ていたのに、チビングランド と馬鹿にされるはめになってしまったのか、と。
