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NewModelArmy έγραψε: 07 Μαρ 2025, 18:28 Ψιτ, και οι Βρετανοι έχουν πυρηνικό οπλοστασιο, και σε αυτές τις περιπτώσεις δεν έχει σημασία αν ο ένας εχει 6000(αναθεμα πόσα λειτουργούν) και ο άλλος 250.Για να ισοπεδωσουν Μόσχα, Πετρούπολη φτάνουν και περισσεύουν

But there is one simple question that nobody is asking. When is an independent nuclear deterrent not an independent nuclear deterrent?

To many experts, the answer is all too obvious: when the maintenance, design, and testing of UK submarines depend on Washington, and when the nuclear missiles aboard them are on lease from Uncle Sam.
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No British politician is addressing this issue, and it shows. Informed voters are probably familiar with the various parties’ declared stances on the Trident question, but few Britons have any idea that the United States is even involved in the program, let alone their country’s nuclear benefactor.

Instead, Trident is being presented as a purely domestic matter, and one of the few in modern British politics that puts clear ideological water between Left and Right. The Tories have pledged £100 billion ($154 billion) to upgrade the program. The insurgent Scottish Nationalists — who will probably hold the balance of power in the likely event of a hung parliament — want to scrap the weapons altogether (the nukes are based in Scotland), as do the Greens and Plaid Cymru. The remaining parties fall somewhere in between.

At a deeper political level, however, Trident cuts to the heart of the US-UK Special Relationship, and its contrasting significance for London and Washington.

In 2006, Parliament’s Select Committee on Defense presented a White Paper to Parliament containing a granular analysis of the Trident program. Although it is now almost a decade old, NATO sources have confirmed that the paper remains the benchmark for non-classified information on Britain’s nuclear weapons, as very little has changed since. And it lays bare the extent of the UK’s nuclear reliance on America.

The report makes for striking reading. The UK does not even own its Trident missiles, but rather leases them from the United States. British subs must regularly visit the US Navy’s base at King’s Bay, Georgia, for maintenance or re-arming. And since Britain has no test site of its own, it tries out its weapons under US supervision at Cape Canaveral, off the Florida coast.

A huge amount of key Trident technology — including the neutron generators, warheads, gas reservoirs, missile body shells, guidance systems, GPS, targeting software, gravitational information and navigation systems — is provided directly by Washington, and much of the technology that Britain produces itself is taken from US designs (the four UK Trident submarines themselves are copies of America’s Ohio-class Trident submersibles).

NewModelArmy έγραψε: 07 Μαρ 2025, 18:28 Ψιτ, και οι Βρετανοι έχουν πυρηνικό οπλοστασιο, και σε αυτές τις περιπτώσεις δεν έχει σημασία αν ο ένας εχει 6000(αναθεμα πόσα λειτουργούν) και ο άλλος 250.Για να ισοπεδωσουν Μόσχα, Πετρούπολη φτάνουν και περισσεύουν

NewModelArmy έγραψε: 07 Μαρ 2025, 18:28 Ψιτ, και οι Βρετανοι έχουν πυρηνικό οπλοστασιο, και σε αυτές τις περιπτώσεις δεν έχει σημασία αν ο ένας εχει 6000(αναθεμα πόσα λειτουργούν) και ο άλλος 250.Για να ισοπεδωσουν Μόσχα, Πετρούπολη φτάνουν και περισσεύουν