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UK Trident Nuclear Missile Programme Whistleblower

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Is this on the level? If so, this guy just "Snowdened" himself.

The article describes appalling lack of security (and more) in Britain's Trident nuclear submarine program.

He ends with:

   Order through the fear of nuclear annihilation
   can no longer be maintained. Every major nation
   on the planet has been infiltrated by terrorists
   that are preparing to attack us from within.
   Our Nuclear weapon systems are the prime target
   and we are wide open to attack. We must unite
   globally in order to eliminate he biggest threat
   the world has ever seen.

It does amaze me how little attention this got vs. e.g. 'About the supposed factoring of a 4096 bit RSA key' esp. given another related article did well 'UK government quietly rewrites hacking laws to give GCHQ immunity', but there we go.

The veracity _is_ questionable, but if true it's of huge importance and very frightening. It sounds like the typical incompetencies of a poorly managed company, but applied to one of the most sophisticated nuclear delivery systems in existence. I really hope this gets looked into, I for one am going to write a letter to my MP to ask them to investigate.

There are several linguistic mistakes in the text. What do you think about it?

In fairness, the guy is a sailor, not a writer. I'm sure I would make more than several mistakes if you put me in charge of a nuclear submarine.

But yes, the effort to dismantle the Cold War nuclear arsenals should never have been allowed to fizzle out. It should be restarted now. Retaining those things today is crazy, particularly since, as OP observes, they are of no use against today's enemies.

It bothered me too as if it undermined the validity of the document but you need to realize the emotional situation he was while writing this.

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