Learning From Iran

We, too, should be spending our money on nuclear power rather than on nuclear weapons. We should be doing this, both in order to restore to our working class the sort of high-wage, high-skilled, high-status jobs destroyed in the 1980s and 1990s, and in order to make ourselves independent of oil from the Middle East and gas from the former Soviet Union. If seventy-six billion pounds can somehow be found for Trident, then it should instead be spent on this.