Originally Posted by Oberon

Trouble is, like all disarmament, it's a stand-off. Actions can only be taken multilaterally rather than unilaterally.
We're facing a similar situation in the UK with Trident, there's more than a couple of calls to scrap our nuclear deterrent rather than renew or replace it.
It would save a lot of money, this is true, but the whole point of having that deterrent, and the point that France has it too, is to remind that whoever decides to drop a nuclear warhead on British soil would have to consider the likelihood of us returning the favour. It's not something that you can do if you don't have the means to retaliate.