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While no conventional threat such as the Soviet Union remains, the American domination of the international system will not last forever; who knows what adversary will arise in forty years time, in an anarchical international system it is best to have the insurance of nuclear weapons. Nuclear expenditure in Britain only accounts for 5% of the defence budget, a tiny cost for the world’s most effective insurance policy. A disarmament program would be nothing more than a grand political gesture with no real impact upon the proliferation of nuclear weapons. “It may be unpleasant but it is an unpleasant necessity”. Idealism is yet to prosper in an international system that is as anarchical as ever, unpredictable events such as September the 11th attacks means that Britain’s nuclear arsenal remains an important insurance policy.

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Jack James Goodwin, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Gary Lewis
• olly
• George Dawson
• J Hume
• Philip Hunt
• Frederick Clark
• Mike Alderson
• Christopher Delaney
• Simon Cockeram
• Geoff Morgan
• g brown
• Brian Murphy
• Stephen Parkinson
• Stephen White
• Graham Marlow
• churchie
• Michael Dent
• Dr G Y Shin
• Aaron Lee Robson
• Paul Turnbull
• Robert Murray
• chris modd
• Steve Thursby
• Adam Platt
• Rhoderick Gates
• Paul Daniel
• Daniel Worley
• Greg Mcleish
• William Hart
• Charles smith
• Ian Kent
• Luke Jackson
• Alan Davis
• david J. Waring
• Andrew Payne
• Graham Smith
• Ian Whitaker
• thomas skeates
• John O'Neill
• Mark Phillips
• john alan willington
• Kevin Malone
• David Rae
• Graham Hill
• John Paul Beardsmore
• Barry Beddow
• Sam Booth
• Philip Shaw
• David Harcombe
• Neville A. Daniels
• James Donnellan
• Brian Henderson
• Bryan Bellamy
• Daniel Kinsey
• Orfeo Mattar
• k walker
• Alan Kennedy
• Lionel Garratt
• Matthew Morris
• Robert Lucien Howe
• Matthew Frost
• Michael Cox
• Peter Grassick
• Robert Owen
• Patrick Barr
• Oliver Lines
• harriet stevenson
• Martyn Simpson
• Andrew J Foden (England)
• Adrian Lucas
• W Bratty
• Abbas Yari
• John Annan
• Chris Jarrett
• Robert Edwards
• ken shuttlewood
• John Pemberton
• michael loughlin
• John Hickman
• Nick Townley
• HAMISH MCFARLANE
• Alexander Cox
• James Costello
• Mark Abbott
• Allan Blanchard
• Andrew Keenan
• Aaron Elliston - Jones
• Damien Hopton
• Clive kingan
• Jeremy Stevens
• James Phillips
• A E Mellor
• Terence David Carroll
• raymond ansell
• Jeremy Ryle
• Colin Mitchelson
• MickeyParish
• Anthony Cormack
• colin cory
• Charlie Picking
• Gavin Smith
• Chris Fisher
• Calum J Robertson
• Ben Gallagher
• Mr.Graeme.G.M.Gillon
• Daniel Paine
• Scott Martyn
• Philip Kirkby
• Matthew Bunney
• Rowan Weston
• Matthew Wildman
• Tom Goodall
• David Jones
• JOHN-MICHAEL MCCANN
• henry street
• Geoffrey May