When on BBC Radio today, he said that he would never use nuclear weapons in the situation that he would be elected Prime Minister, politicians of all sides were quick to reply. All of these, and many other comments show how poorly informed the vast majority of the UK’s policy makers are about these weapons. Only the Scottish Nationalists have a consistent anti-nuclear policy and quite understandable it is too given that the UK’s nuclear weapons are located on Scottish soil, dangerously close to Scotland’s two largest cities. For those of us who are plugged-in to the nuclear weapons debate, having listened to and read so much information on the subject, the need to give up nuclear weapons is as obvious as the nose on our faces. They ignore declarations by the Red Cross and Red Crescent movements who say that nuclear weapons are not compliant with International Humanitarian Law and that there is no way to provide a humanitarian response to a nuclear explosion.