Warheads trip‘posed a danger’

A member of Renfrewshire CND has slammed the movement of nuclear warheads across the region last Saturday.

Four warhead transporters were part of a 21-vehicle convoy which travelled along the M8 and over the Erskine Bridge.

The Faslane bound weapons had travelled from the south of England.

Duncan Macintosh, secretary of Renfrewshire CND, said: “We strongly condemn the danger this convoy posed to the people of Renfrewshire.

“It was a clear provocation to the MSPs elected the day before, the majority of whom are committed to remove all nuclear weapons from Scotland once it a becomes independent state.

“The number of nuclear warheads is being increased by 40 per cent in violation of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty to which the UK Government is a party.

“Each warhead has eight times the destructive power of the bomb which destroyed the whole city of Hiroshima in 1945.”