UK MPs vote to renew Trident nuclear programme
The UK Parliament on Tuesday voted 472 to 117 in favour of renewing the Trident nuclear deterrent programme, despite opposition from Scottish Nationalist Party. The Trident programme involves upgrading four submarines with 40 warheads each at an estimated cost of £167-205 billion. Each warhead is reportedly 8 times as powerful as the atomic bomb which killed 1,40,000 people in Hiroshima.