Nuclear problem

The women sought to bring the issue of the threat of Trident’s nuclear weapons before the Supreme Court in the land where the thermonuclear submarine fleet is kept.the disarmament action by those three women, who, on 8 June 1999, got closer than any ordinary citizen has ever been to halting the threat of nuclear war. When they met them in Cornton Vale jail they admitted doing the things on the indictment (or charge sheet) but were emphatic that they wanted to plead not guilty.The defence case was to be that in disarming a United Kingdom Ministry of Defence floating computer facility they were not engaged in a criminal act but rather in an act of crime prevention, that is, preventing the United Kingdom from continuing to threaten various nations of the world with use of its Trident 2 thermonuclear weapons fleet, an act that they regard as a modern form of totalitarianism, which could easily lead to global catastrophe. On 8 July 1996 the International Court of Justice (the World Court) in The Hague had issued an ‘Advisory Opinion’ to the United Nations General Assembly saying unanimously that to threaten the use of thermonuclear warheads was illegal under international humanitarian law