Nukes Without Conscience:

America Told Britain to Keep Trident Test Failure a Secret

Rasa - The United States government has trust issues. It refuses to look in the mirror and meet the one that will betray it the most: The United States government itself.

News ID: 426784

Date: 24 January 2017 - 23:58

RNA - In Washington, where hypocrisy insults intelligence, the former Obama administration asked the British government to keep quiet on a nuclear missile malfunction. The same US government that imposed sanctions on Iran over its nuclear energy program and missile defense system even pressured the UK not to divulge details of the failed Trident missile test.

The Trident program is Britain's submarine-based nuclear deterrent which has been in operation since 1994. According to The Times, officials from the Obama administration asked the then-prime minister David Cameron's office not to comment on the “serious malfunction” during a test of the Trident II D5 missile in June 2016, because they were worried there could be similar problems on other missiles.

The Sunday Times says the unarmed missile had veered off towards the Florida mainland, before being diverted into the sea as part of a self-destruct mechanism. The failed test took place in the exact opposite of the Royal Navy's intent and just weeks before a House of Commons vote to renew the multi-billion nuclear weapons system.

The timing of the revelation could not have been worse. This is the same US government that also forced the International Atomic Energy Agency to vote against a resolution, which would have expressed formal “concern” over Israel’s nuclear arsenal, and urged them to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

No longer concerned with their conscience, the United States and its NATO allies – including the UK that secretly sold Israel the material and expertise to make nuclear warheads – even said Israel could keep its nukes. They told the IAEA that the real problem in volatile Middle East was Iran’s civilian nuclear program, saying it would be inappropriate to even mention Israel while the Iran deal was still in place!

This is while their own nuclear arsenal – the gravest threat to world peace – continues to endanger the non-proliferation Treaty as well. The regime in London has not even bothered to declare its intention to abandon its weapons of mass destruction program. Quite the contrary, it continues to test new nukes with an enormous contribution from the US government. A reminder why Washington always asks London to keep such matters under the wraps, even when a British nuclear missile flies in wrong direction to the United States!

The bottom line is that the greatest hypocrite states in the world, the US and the UK, will waste no time to blame other nuclear armed states, particularly Russia, for any “disastrous malfunction” of their own nuclear missile launches if one day they fly in their own direction. Those who keep their failed nuclear tests a secret will surely deliver the smugly message to the Kremlin of the ominous nuclear Armageddon on any pretext.

This is to be expected from the United States, the only nation to have actually used them against the people of Japan in 1945, and a nation that still retains a first strike strategy against its claimed enemies. But the United States is not the only nuclear weapon state that shows blatant double standards in reaction to such news.

With its latest nuclear missile test, the UK also made clear it is modernizing and increasing its nuclear weapon systems on the pretext to deal with the existential threat from other nuclear armed states which are doing the same. Britain claims the right to renew its Trident submarine program with its nuclear arsenal, and France, Pakistan, India and Israel continue to maintain their nuclear weapon systems. None of them has any intention to dismantle its nuclear weapons.

It seems the British and the Americans are not the only ones capable of displaying hypocrisy and double standards. We can only scratch our heads at their irrationality, arrogance and hypocrisy; as well as the United Nations that always join them in any criticism that involves Iran but which stays enigmatically silent about the recent British nuclear missile test.

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