<strong>Retiring</strong> <strong>Trident</strong>: An alternative proposal for UK nuclear deterrence Toby Fenwick
<strong>Retiring</strong> <strong>Trident</strong> About the author Toby Fenwick began his involvement with CentreForum in 2011, and he published “Dropping the Bomb: A post-<strong>Trident</strong> Future” in March 2012. A CentreForum Research Associate, Toby holds graduate degrees in international law and international relations from University College London and the London School of Economics, and undergraduate degrees in law from Birkbeck College, University of London, and politics from Middlebury College, Vermont, USA. A former HM Treasury and DfID civil servant, he served in the RAF intelligence reserve from 1995 to 2009, has written for Chatham House and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. He was elected as a Fellow of the RSA in 2013. Acknowledgments The author is profoundly grateful to Paul Ingram of BASIC and Jeffrey Lewis of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, Monterey, California, for their expertise, support and good humour, and without whom this paper would not exist. Input and challenge from all points of the debate has been critical in teasing out the nuances and stress-testing the assumptions in this paper. The author is therefore very grateful to Peter Burt, Julie Cantalou, Hugh Chalmers, Malcolm Chalmers, Mike Fenwick, Tim Fox, Eric James, Tim Hare, Garry Porter, Nick Ritchie, Jennifer Smith, Tim Street, Phil Williams and those serving officers and civil servants whose valuable contributions cannot be publicly recognised at this time. He is indebted to Karl L. Swartz and the Great Circle Mapper (www.gcmap.com) for producing the mapping. As ever, special thanks are due to the CentreForum team of Patrick Day, Russell Eagling, Tom Frostick, India Keable-Elliott, Ashley Hibben, James Kempton, Stephen Lee, Tom Papworth, Anthony Rowlands, Nikki Stickland, Holly Taggart, Chris Thuong, and Nick Tyrone for their assistance and support. Finally, heartfelt thanks to Professor Russell Leng, the Emeritus James Jermain Professor of Political Economy and International Law at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, USA, who inspired my early interest in international relations and emphasised the central role of international law. Without his patience and guidance, none of this would have been possible. © Toby Fenwick February 2015 Cover image: F-35C of US Navy test and evaluation squadron VX-23 “Salty Dogs” performs the F-35C Lightning II carrier variant’s first carrier landing aboard the USS Nimitz (CVN 68) on 6 November 2014. U.S. Navy official photo courtesy of Lockheed Martin by Alexander H Groves Published February 2015 CentreForum This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- ShareAlike 4.0 International License. For more information visit creativecommons.org 2
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