WikiLeaks cables: US agrees to tell Russia Britain's nuclear secrets

[pollyannaish]

The Telegraph :

nformation about every Trident missile the US supplies to Britain will be given to Russia as part of an arms control deal signed by President Barack Obama next week.
Defence analysts claim the agreement risks undermining Britain’s policy of refusing to confirm the exact size of its nuclear arsenal.
The fact that the Americans used British nuclear secrets as a bargaining chip also sheds new light on the so-called “special relationship”, which is shown often to be a one-sided affair by US diplomatic communications obtained by the WikiLeaks website.
Details of the behind-the-scenes talks are contained in more than 1,400 US embassy cables published to date by the Telegraph, including almost 800 sent from the London Embassy, which are published online today. The documents also show that:



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[pollyannaish]

Counting the days. This is truly disturbing.

[Pepper]

WikiLeaks cables: US agrees to tell Russia Britain's nuclear secrets

 

 

What do you expect from Mr. Sell your friends down the river or throw them under the bus?

 

 

One person in the comments:

 

When our Dear Leader got rid of the bust of Churchill, it should have been a hint of things to come.

[Argyle58]

I guess this is part of the reason he didn't want the press around when he signed this pact with the devil.

[ErnstBlofeld]

The Telegraph :

 

nformation about every Trident missile the US supplies to Britain will be given to Russia as part of an arms control deal signed by President Barack Obama next week.

Defence analysts claim the agreement risks undermining Britain’s policy of refusing to confirm the exact size of its nuclear arsenal.

The fact that the Americans used British nuclear secrets as a bargaining chip also sheds new light on the so-called “special relationship”, which is shown often to be a one-sided affair by US diplomatic communications obtained by the WikiLeaks website.

Details of the behind-the-scenes talks are contained in more than 1,400 US embassy cables published to date by the Telegraph, including almost 800 sent from the London Embassy, which are published online today. The documents also show that:

 

 

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This is very disturbing. Giving Russia those secrets could lead to ours and I will tell you why. The British Tridents are part of our SIOP plan. The Royal Navy's contribution to the SIOP shows the power of the nuclear arsenal committed to the plan. The four Vanguard submarines could strike a maximum of 512 separate targets; this is equivalent to 7% of the total U.S. nuclear strike capacity.Nuclear strike targets are listed as the National Target Base (NTB), which is built from an intelligence list of 150,000+ sites across the world. Around 75% of the current targets are in Russia.

[AceRimmer]

This is why you don't install amateur RATS in the White House. I don't know the best word to explain this: arrogant, naive, or just plain stupid.

 

I'd hate to be the US ambassador to the UK this morning, because they're probably getting a well-deserved pounding for this idiocy.