MORE pressure has been piled on the SNP leadership over its controversial proposal to keep an independent Scotland in Nato after a top Scottish defence analyst claimed this would lead to nuclear weapons staying on the Clyde for longer.
Dr Phillips O'Brien from the Scottish Centre for War Studies at Glasgow University, appearing before the House of Commons Scottish Affairs Committee, was asked if being in Nato would make it more likely nuclear weapons would stay in Scotland longer.
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