FORMER Nato Secretary General Lord Robertson has warned that the world is too dangerous to abandon Trident as he accused the SNP of being "profoundly reckless".

Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, who was also a Labour Defence Secretary, said that the Nationalists were asking generations "yet unborn" to face terrible risks.

Writing in The Herald today the Labour peer points to the recent events in Ukraine, which he suggests demonstrate the difficulty in predicting international aggression.

During the run up to the Scottish independence poll, the peer warned that a Yes vote "would be cataclysmic for the world" and that the "forces of darkness would simply love it' if Scotland left the UK.

Today he writes: "Nobody can predict what challenges and threats we will face in the next five, never mind fifty, years.

"Given what we see today it would be an impossibly knowledgeable or a profoundly reckless person who would dare say that we will never be threatened as a country or as an ally over these generations.

"Those who advocate the abandonment of our deterrent ask others yet unborn to face terrible risks.

"The real world out there is a dangerous place, as the people of Ukraine are sadly finding out.

"It is no place for those who would bargain away our long-term security and safety."

Lord Robertson also claims that with every SNP the figure for replacing Trident "grows and exaggerates like Pinoccio's nose".

Angus Robertson, SNP Westminster Leader and defence spokesman said: ''Lord Robertson may want to continue dumping the deadliest weapon system ever devised on the Clyde, so close to Scotland's biggest centres of population , but he must know he is in a minority. The churches - the trades unions - civic society and the majority of all Scotland's elected representatives are opposed to it - and the latest polls in Scotland continue to show a majority against its renewal."

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