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The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown |
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is offering to scale back Britain's nuclear deterrence |
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if an international agreement is reached |
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to cut the world's nuclear arsenals. |
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Mr. Brown is expected to tell a special |
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session of the United Nations Security Council on Thursday |
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that he'll be willing to give up one of four royal navy submarines |
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that carry Trident nuclear missiles. |
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Officials are insisting that cost isn't a factor here. |
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Here's our defence correspondent Nick Childs. |
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Gordon Brown is saying he'll be ready to |
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throw part of the trident force into the port |
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in the context of a much bigger global disarmament deal. |
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He said so in general terms before. |
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This offer though is more concrete. |
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There is a growing sense that to avoid what some fear |
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could be a sudden cascade of new nuclear states, |
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the established nuclear powers need to do more |
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in terms of disarmament |
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to keep the proliferation regime intact. |
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The Prime Minister will hope his move |
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will be seen as an important gesture. |
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But the key to the process will be the actions of the big players, |
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the United States and Russia. |
