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"People come to Scotland to see the Loch Ness Monster," says the hotel owner on the west coast, "but the real monster is at my doorstep." He is referring to the British Trident nuclear submarines and their deadly nuclear missiles.
One warhead has seven times the explosive power of the Hiroshima bomb. Up to 8 warheads can be carried by a Trident missile. And 16 of these missiles can be launched from a Trident submarine, which is of a similar size like the sunken Russian 'Kursk'.
The peace movement has protested and petitioned for decades, but does not ever seem to get very far using these methods alone. The new option, according to activists from 'Trident Ploughshares', is "people's disarmament".
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