They are unable to counter the nuclear forces of the United States and the SovietUnion both in scale and in quality, but they will not lose their deterrent role in a long period of time to come.

无论从规模或质量来看，它们均无法与美苏核力量抗衡，但它们在今后较长时期内不会失去威慑作用。

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Over this holiday period, there will be around 5,000 members of our Armed Forces deployed on operations – in the desert, at sea, even under the sea operating our continuous nuclear deterrent.

在今年的节假日期间，大约会有五千民英国武装军人继续在此待命和部署行动。 他们的身影出现在沙漠、在海上、甚至在海底，在那里持续开展核威慑巡航。

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In short, despite the welcome recognition of the need for credible sub-strategic nuclear deterrent forces for the foreseeable future, the actual decisions taken at the NATO summit set the stage for inaction on replacement of obsolescing systems and for new negotiations that will make it problematic even to retain the aging ones now deployed.

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"The UN Security Council seat, our membership of the European Union, our leadership in Nato, our nuclear deterrent, our strong armed forces, they are all things that belong to the whole of the United Kingdom, " he said.

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It will also require the United States to make substantial additional investments in its nuclear forces in order to give its smaller deterrent arsenal the redundancy and military effectiveness that it has at present.

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