Trident: Does the Nuclear Deterrent Work?
Warfare
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Nuclear Weapons in the Cold War
In a cold war context, the scenario was perhaps a bult from the blue attack from the soviet union. Conflict escalates further to the use of nuclear weapons against the countries involved,. homeland, and in that event of the u k. The united kingdom government can be assured then that there will be a submarine, a british submarine, at sea able to fire a retaliatory strike against the Soviet Union. And that then would deter the russians theSoviet union from considering the first strike in th process.
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