division_name: Parental Rights (Rapists) and Family Courts &#8212; Continuous At-Sea Deterrent
motion: <p class="indent" pid="b354.8/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House has considered the 50th anniversary of the continuous at sea deterrent.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b366.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;A knowledge that we were prepared, in the last resort, to do this&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b366.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;might well deter an aggressive nation. Duelling was a recognised method of settling quarrels between men of high social standing so long as the duellists stood twenty paces apart and fired at each other with pistols of a primitive type. If the rule had been that they should stand a yard apart with pistols at each other&#8217;s hearts, we doubt whether it would long have remained a recognised method of settling affairs of honour.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b379.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Russia is introducing new classes of conventional and nuclear attack submarines and is modernising its Northern Fleet through the addition of long-range, high-precision missiles. The totality of its modernisation programme adds up to a step-change strengthening of Russian maritime capability in support of an anti-access strategy that could challenge NATO&#8217;s command of the high seas&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b382.1/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Our moral and military support of the United States and our possession of nuclear weapons of the highest quality and on an appreciable scale, together with their means of delivery, will greatly reinforce the deterrent power of the free world, and will strengthen our influence within the free world.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2019-03-01">1 March</phrase> 1955; Vol. 537, c. 1897.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b385.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Our task now is to devise a system for living in peace and freedom while ensuring that nuclear weapons are never used, either to destroy or to blackmail.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b388.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We&#8217;ve got to have this thing over here, whatever it costs. We&#8217;ve got to have the Union Jack on top of it.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b389.3/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Indestructible retaliation&#8230;is the secret&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b389.3/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the real estate is free and where they are far away from me.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b401.8/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I cannot belong to a party that quite rightly does not wish to hold nuclear weapons on its soil but wishes to join a first-strike nuclear alliance.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b407.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;So long as any state has nuclear weapons, others will want them. So long as any such weapons remain, it defies credibility that they will not one day be used, by accident, miscalculation or design...It is sheer luck that the world has escaped such catastrophe until now&#8221;?</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b416.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the purpose of a British nuclear deterrent remains what it has always been: to minimize the prospect of the United Kingdom being attacked by mass destruction weapons. It is not a panacea and it is not designed to forestall every type of threat. Nevertheless, the threat which it is designed to counter is so overwhelming that no other form of military capability could manage to avert it.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b417.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Labour supports the renewal of the Trident nuclear deterrent. As a nuclear-armed power, our country has a responsibility to fulfil our obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b418.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;As long as nuclear weapons exist, NATO will remain a nuclear alliance.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b418.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;These Allies&#8217; separate centres of decision-making contribute to deterrence by complicating the calculations of potential adversaries.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b420.2/12" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Be careful above all things&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b420.2/14" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;not to let go of the atomic weapon until you are sure, and more than sure, that other means of preserving peace are in your hands.&#8221;</p>