http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/...ar-secrets.html

This actually doesnt bother me. If we are going to be honest about our nuclear arsenals, and we are supplying Britain, we have a right to tell whoever we want what we sold.

 

It seems really bad precedent to allow UK to have "secret" numbers of nukes, when we are trying to make sure nukes dont get into the wrong hands.

There is absolutely no consequence to Russia knowing this. Even if they didn't know already they probably dont care much now, they aren't the big old boogeyman anymore.

I'm not mad about the general action of giving the information away. But I'm not a fan at all of using nuclear information as a pawn to get a deal done.

The consequence is that people won't trust you, make deals with you, etc...it's a reputation thing, not a "it's not a big deal thing" as most of you are making it. It has nothing to do with should/could, it has everything to do with showing the rest of the world they can't trust you.

 

That said, people seem to have a problem knowing what these leaks/cables really are, and a disturbing trend I see is that people are accepting them as "pure fact", when they aren't. They're a mass of he said/she said, and nothing more. It's very possible that things are said and done on purpose to deceive, knowing these cables occur (as they've been occurring for decades)...cables are not 100% fact, it's something someone said, and it may or may not even be true. I'm quite disturbed that everyone seems to think that anything in a 'cable' is fact or truth, and they're just taking it all at face value.