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The control of Britain's nuclear arsenal and its relationship with the United States
The short answer is no: Britain’s nuclear arsenal is not formally “controlled by America,” but it is deeply interdependent with US technology, logistics and political arrangements that give Washington...
agreements — notably the (MDA) and the — make the British materially cheaper and technically feasible for while constraining full operational independence and exposing the UK to political leverage; th...
If Washington suddenly withheld maintenance or components, ’s would remain "operationally independent" in the narrow sense that the Prime Minister can order a launch without external permission, but t...