Original sentence: " Robertson said NATO has a "central nuclear role" and that the SNP should either accept it or keep Scotland out of the alliance."The people who would cheer loudest at the break-up of the United Kingdom and therefore, the disintegration of one of the key pillars, the anchors in the Western alliance, would be those who are today’s adversaries and tomorrow’s enemies.He said: “Either the SNP accept the central nuclear role of NATO and show that they will shed any principle to buy votes for separatism, or they reject the nuclear role of NATO and ensure that a separate Scottish state stays out of the world's most successful defence alliance.Lord Robertson supervised the entry of seven new members of NATO in 2002 and each one had to accept its strategic concept stating that “as long as nuclear weapons exist, NATO will remain a nuclear alliance”.The former NATO Secretary General, the Scot Labour peer Lord Robertson, said Scotland becoming independent could be “cataclysmic” for the West
Edited sentence: Lord Robertson, a former NATO Secretary General, said NATO has a "central nuclear role" and that the SNP should either accept it or keep Scotland out of the alliance