My younger self would probably be ashamed...
I have to admit I've even changed my views on UK nuclear deterrence. In the 1980's, when I didn't quite join the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the world was different. As far as we knew, the Soviets and the United States had vast numbers of ICBM warheads, enough to destroy most cities and military sites in either country many times over, with plenty left over to take us out. Many of us growing up then thought there was a significant risk that a devastating war on the scale of an extinction level event could start by accident, or by a first-strike decision by either side deciding the only way to eliminate the threat was to eliminate the other. It seemed that the UK and France, the only other nuclear-armed powers, had almost trivial numbers of weapons. That we could demonstrate by scrapping Polaris, how unacceptable we felt these weapons were and that, however war-mongering the leaders on either side, they should start to aim for a reducing parity until the weapon...