Trident: Does the Nuclear Deterrent Work?
Warfare
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Nuclear Weapons - What Is Trident?
The UK has one nuclear weapon system. We call it trident, but really it's a three or four part system. It consists of four nuclear powered, nuclear armed submarines that are equipped with the trident missile. And then we've got the war heads that are mounted on those missiles, that are designed and built in the united kingdom, but based on will very closely resemble a particular war head of american design. And then i guess the much broader command and control complex to manage the deployment of the submarines and targeting and any actual use firing of the weapons. Ok, so what's the logic behind this? Why do we possess this incredibly powerful nuclear weapon system? So the logic behind
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