Jeremy Corbyns plans for scrapping UK nuclear weapons 70 years after Hiroshima

We have a moral duty to make Britain and the world a safer place, says Jeremy Corbyn, frontrunner in the Labour leadership race.

According to Taghrib News reporter (TNA) in London, Jeremy Corbyn used the 70th anniversary of the dropping of the atom bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima to set out his plan for nuclear disarmament in the UK.

Corbyn said that if he were prime minster he would not replace the Trident nuclear weapons system and would transition away from nuclear weapons entirely.

In a document entitled Plan for Defence Diversification, Corbyn sets out a strategy to protect the jobs and skills of those who work on Trident, and in the defence sector more widely, by investing in “socially productive” hi-tech industry and infrastructure projects.

“We are making the case for a defence diversification agency because we have a moral duty, and strategic defence and international commitments, to make Britain and the world a safer place,” the document reads.

Also “Senior military figures have described our existing nuclear weapons as ‘militarily useless’ and our possession of them encourages other countries to seek a similar arsenal while undermining the efforts being made to advance the cause of international nuclear disarmament.”

In 2016, parliament is expected to vote on the £100bn renewal of the Trident programme, a set of four submarines armed with Trident II D-5 ballistic missiles, which are able to deliver thermonuclear warheads.

Jeremy Corbyn's plans for scrapping UK nuclear weapons 70 years after Hiroshima