Allies can agree on nuclear policy
THE article describing the SNP's policy for military bases in Scotland after independence ('SNP will let English keep military bases', 11 October) contained a spectrum of views, some of which seem rather far from the mark. In the Scottish Democratic Alliance we support a non-nuclear policy for Scotland although nuclear powered naval and commercial vessels would not be banned from our territorial waters.
By The Newsroom
Published 24th Oct 2009, 01:00 BST
England's nuclear submarines which have a Nato role would still be welcome at Faslane but we would expect our no-nuclear, biological and chemical weapons policy to be respected. Nuclear weapons would have to loaded, unloaded, stored and serviced in a Nato facility elsewhere, such as Ile Longue near Brest.
Such arrangements between current and future allies should not be too difficult to agree.
Michael Hamilton, SDA interim defence spokesman, Kelso
