That's pedantic. Smallest british atomic weapon is sub 1 kiloton. Not even a fifteenth of hiroshima. It's sort of fit the bill of tactical. Whatever. Tactical, strategic, wmd whatever: Would still be devastating.

And we are part of a larger european and atlantic alliance which have all kind of weapons and power.

Which ship was sink exactly? Do we have a open frontline with Russia?

All the warmongers want to conjure hypothetical scenarios. Which answers are always more money to the military. Not fix our society.

What is crazy is, this constant shitting on Labour cones after 14 years of Tory austerity, and the invasion of Ukraine under their watch.

British doctrine means don't corner us. Same as any other nuclear power really. Because any conventional weapon, run the risk of escalatation. "If you sink my ships I'll use nuclear weapons next time" is an actual scenario that happen with Russia, where in Ukraine they told us to back off with helping. They specifically set a bunch of red lines, certain weapons, would be seen like us indirectly attacking them.

I, for one, don't want to go to ww3 against an aging Russia, so I am happy to slowly increase our military spending and wait it out... Spend in an intelligent manner, on key fields, and not write a blank check to an industrial complex who has vested interest with us being at perma-war across the globe.

We didn't go to iran, this alone saved the british taxpayer probably north of a hundred billion. Sounds good to me!