Support for nuclear weapons returns to Cold War era highs

Support for nuclear weapons has returned to levels last seen during the Cold War, a survey has found. Almost two-thirds of Brits told the latest edition of the British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey that having its own nuclear weapons made the UK a safer place. This is more than the 60% that said the same thing in 1983, when the election of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher saw tensions with the USSR reach heights not seen since the Cuban Missile Crisis of the 1960s. By 1994, three years after the end of the Cold War, just 45% of people said…