Trident is due to expire in the 2040s, with the current fleet of Vanguard-class submarines set to be retired in the early 2030s - but Hitchens says the UK's nuclear deterrent is a 'dead loss'.
Speaking on the latest Alas Vine & Hitchens podcast, the longstanding Mail columnist said she believes a new Prime Minister would need to call an election in order to have a mandate to rule.
Top officials in the US government should be asking themselves what to do about Trump, whose recent behaviour suggests he may not be 'entirely with us', Hitchens argued.
Speaking on the latest Alas Vine & Hitchens podcast, the longstanding Mail on Sunday columnist said it was 'absurd and pathetic' that King Charles was being asked to 'endure' the US President.
Speaking on the latest Alas Vine & Hitchens podcast, the longstanding Mail on Sunday columnist said that the policy of killing foreign rulers could easily be turned on Western nations.
Speaking on the latest Alas Vine & Hitchens podcast, the columnist said the UK can no longer leave its status as a nuclear power to the 'whims' of a vengeful President Trump.
Nadine Dorries, who last week sensationally defected to Reform UK, appealed to both men to work together when speaking on the Daily Mail's latest 'Alas Vine and Hitchens' podcast.
In evidence of his claims, Hitchens told co-host and Mail columnist Sarah Vine, of his own late father's view of the war, who grew disillusioned years after fighting in the Royal Navy.