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Trident

July 2024

  • HMS Vengeance at Faslane in Scotland

    ‘Letters of last resort’: deciding response to a nuclear attack among first of Starmer’s tasks

    The handwritten instructions new PMs write for Trident submarine commanders contain instructions for what to do if Britain’s leaders are killed

June 2024

  • HMS Vigilant, which carries the Trident nuclear weapons, at HM Naval Base Clyde, Faslane, April 2019: this is a large, dark grey submarine, seen moored in the lake against a blue sky with small white clouds.

    Rayner hasn’t ‘changed mind’ on nuclear weapons but backs Labour policy

    Deputy leader has voted against renewing Trident but says she supports ‘triple lock’ commitment to programme in near term

March 2024

  • Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor, are seen through a round window examining a small component during a visit to BAE Systems’ submarines facility in Barrow-in-Furness last week.

    Observer business agenda
    UK’s ever more expensive nuclear submarines will torpedo spending plans for years to come

    Whoever wins the next election, a reckoning is overdue on the costs of Britain’s nuclear deterrent

February 2024

  • Simon Tisdall

    A failing British nuclear arsenal reliant on the goodwill of Donald Trump? It’s a terrifying thought

    Simon Tisdall
  • A Trident missile can be fired at targets up to 4,000 miles away and at its fastest can travel at more than 13,000mph, according to the Royal Navy.

    Trident missile test failure raises questions about UK’s nuclear deterrent

April 2023

  • A forest in Costa Rica

    Why Costa Rica beats Britain in the conservation stakes

    Letters: Readers respond to George Monbiot’s article comparing a rich nation’s environmental failures and a poor one’s success

December 2022

  • Royal Navy security personnel stand guard on HMS Vigilant at the Faslane base in Clyde, Scotland in 2016.

    Safety fears as UK Trident submarines are put to sea for longest-ever patrols

    Report says submarines were deployed for five months as former commander warns of risk to sailors

September 2022

  • Royal Navy security personnel stand guard on HMS Vigilant at its Clyde naval base in 2016

    Letters of last resort: PM’s early task to write to UK’s nuclear sub commanders

    Liz Truss must outline instructions in the event the UK is destroyed in an all-out attack

August 2022

  • Steve Bell 25.08.22

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Steve Bell on Liz Truss saying she would be willing to use Trident – cartoon

  • Liz Truss.

    Revealed: Liz Truss personally supported cuts to NHS and doctors’ pay

June 2022

  • Bruce Kent at a CND demonstration in Hyde Park in 1983. He was a vocal critic of then-prime minister Margaret Thatcher’s defence policy.

    Bruce Kent: tributes paid as peace campaigner dies aged 92

    The former general secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and retired priest died after a short illness

May 2022

  • Nicola Sturgeon composite

    Ukraine war will not affect independence poll date, says Sturgeon

    First minister refuses to rule out court action after being ordered to publish legal advice on second referendum

December 2021

  • A Royal Navy Astute-class submarine at HM Naval Base Clyde

    Police investigate unexplained death of Trident submarine worker

    Man who worked on boat carrying UK missiles found dead in barracks at Faslane naval base near Glasgow

November 2021

  • A British Army Warrior infantry fighting vehicle

    MoD procurement disasters, delays and overspends

    A catalogue of UK defence projects vital to national security that ended up on the scrap heap in the last 15 years

August 2021

  • British soldiers on duty during the evacuation at Kabul airport

    Britain’s military must learn from its mistakes

    Letters: Britain’s armed forces are dodging responsibility for failings in Afghanistan and Iraq, argues Prof Paul Dixon. RC Pennington fears military history is doomed to repeat itself. Plus letters from Margaret Phelps, Diana Francis and Jim Golcher

May 2021

  • HMS Vigilant, one of the UK’s four nuclear warhead-carrying submarines.

    UK’s Trident plan incompatible with non-proliferation treaty, peers told

    Ex-Foreign Office boss and LSE academics warn against planned increase in nuclear weapon stockpile

April 2021

  • A blackbird.

    Brief letters
    How a blackbird captured lockdown

  • HMS Vigilant is seen at Faslane naval base, which carries the UK’s Trident nuclear deterrent

    Trident could be forced overseas or halted if Scotland gains independence

March 2021

  • An unarmed Trident missile fired from HMS Vigilant.

    This is a defence of white elephants, not the realm

  • Defence Secretary visit to Faslane<br>Vanguard-class submarine HMS Vigilant (front right), one of the UK's four nuclear warhead-carrying submarines, with Astute-class submarines HMS Artful (back left) and HMS Astute (back 2nd left) at HM Naval Base Clyde, also known as Faslane, ahead of a visit by Defence Secretary Michael Fallon. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Wednesday January 20, 2016. See PA story DEFENCE Trident. Photo credit should read: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: Trident: the British question – podcast

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