RE: Un-United Kingdom
September 16, 2014 at 8:41 pm
(This post was last modified: September 16, 2014 at 8:47 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Britian's only nuclear warheads are the ones on trident missiles fired from qthe 4 vangard class ballistic missile submarines. It is generally thought Britain currently has around 225 nuclear warheads, which is actually not enough to fully qall 4 vanguards. So the missiles are swapped between the trident class boats to ensure most of them are at sea. Of course one could always claim Britain cheated and has a stash of the hidden warhead somewhere else. But that is unlikely as Britain lacks means of delivering these warhead, and it is also not clear why one would hide one's warhead because hidden warheads has no deterrence value, and without deterrence value a warhead is of no national value whatsoever because Britain could not possibly survive any nuclear war which it failed to deter from involving Britain.
I saw one estimate that it would cost 9 billion pounds to relocate the infrastructure that currently support britain's vanguard class ballistic missile submarines.
I saw one estimate that it would cost 9 billion pounds to relocate the infrastructure that currently support britain's vanguard class ballistic missile submarines.