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A final decision to commit to the successor programme to Britain's nuclear weapons programme, Trident, is expected this year. For supporters, Trident is the ultimate security guarantee in the unpredictable strategic environment of the next forty-to-fifty years. For those against, Trident is militarily nonsensical, financially insane, and morally intolerable. You might feel you have heard a great deal on this subject and yet public opinion is still divided over the issue. In this programme the aim is to give listeners a completely new way to understand the debate and to decide where they stand. Two experts who passionately disagree on Trident renewal are challenged to reach agreement over their differences and bring clarity over what the disagreement is fundamentally about. Sir Malcolm Rifkind is a former Defence and Foreign Secretary and was once third in line to 'push the button'. Dr Rebecca Johnson is a life-long peace activist and Chief Executive of the Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy. They join Matthew Taylor for the first in a new series of Agree to Differ.