Human Wrongs Watch
By Wilbert van der Zeijden, Pax Christi IKV, Pressenza* – Scottish independence has been pending for many years, or centuries if you take to that perspective, and now it’s closer than ever. It’s only a referendum away.
**Trident Boat | JohnED76| Wikimedia Commons
There’s two issues tied to the discussion on Scottish independence that trigger my professional interest. First, is the Trident nuclear missiles – the UK weapons of mass destruction deployed and stored in Faslane, Scotland. What happens to those after independence? Second is the question whether independent Scotland will be – should be – part of NATO?
For a long time, the ruling Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) held it that Scotland would neither become part of NATO nor allow England’s nuclear weapons to stay. But lately…..
