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Trident nuclear weapons could inflict unacceptable damage on russians..personal and top secret - Bernice Moore - 27-12-2010 The British government opted for the Trident nuclear weapons system because it estimated it could kill up to 10 million Russians and inflict "unacceptable damage" on the former Soviet Union, according to secret Whitehall documents written in the 1970s. The macabre calculations that underpinned the decision in 1980 to replace Polaris nuclear missiles with Trident have been revealed by a Ministry of Defence memo, marked "personal and top secret". In a nuclear war, Britain would have had to be prepared "to finish what we start", it said.b http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/dec/26/secret-files-70s-trident-russians