Thatcher approved shoot-to-kill policy at Faslane naval base

I remember when I was about 7 years old I was in a car late at night from a day trip to the highlands heading back to Glasgow and we were a bit lost. We took a wrong turn and out of the woods two humvees appeared, stopped the car and after a bit of an ordeal we were redirected back where we wanted to go.

The point in this story is that mistakes can happen and a shoot-to-kill policy seems a bit extreme. If someone gave you free reign of a trident submarine, it's extremely unlikely no matter how much preparation you're given that you'd be able to launch or detonate a nuke. The security measures simply won't allow it because of the numerous and redundant fail-safes.

For that reason, I don't believe protection of a trident sub should really be much different to say protecting a navy frigate or aircraft carrier.

But Thatcher was good at using terrorism, idealism and such to justify hard and mostly symbolic policies in the same way that May uses family values and pedophiles to justify her snooper's charter.

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