Replacing Trident could take the UK-US 'special relationship' to "new heights"
Replacing Trident could take the UK-US 'special relationship' to "new heights" image captionHMS Vigilant UK cooperation with the United States on nuclear weapons has reached "new heights", with the new warhead for the Trident missile, BBC Newsnight has learned. The cooperation extends not just to the design of the new device, but to British lobbying in Washington for funding for the new weapon, known as W93, in order to protect the project from cuts favoured by those on the left of President Joseph Biden's Democratic party. Last year, the UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace wrote to a key cong...
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