Trident Wrapped Up?

It is a mystery why Cameron and then May took Trident to a vote yesterday. OK, so it’s nice to start off with a good strong issue that delivers a comfortable government majority, unites the Party and splits the opposition. But it risks slaughtering the goose that had just kept laying those golden eggs.

Concerning SSBN Vulnerability - recent papers

Rear Admiral John Gower, CB OBE

Two BASIC papers published in recent months (The Inescapable Net: Unmanned Systems in Anti-Submarine Warfare and A Primer on Trident's Cyber Vulnerabilities), have asserted the UK’s strategic nuclear deterrent is in danger of becoming vulnerable in such a way that it can no longer be relied upon to fulfil its primary role.

Trident Advocates Target the Air-Launched Option

Paul Ingram, Executive Director

As Emily Thornberry, Shadow Defence Secretary, closes the consultation period on her defence review, critics of the review have been engaging on the substance. They worry that minds currently are just a little too open to alternatives for comfort, and that a non-Trident alternative could become Labour policy.

The impact of cyber vulnerability

Nada Eweiss

On 23 November, the day the Strategic Defence and Security Report (SDSR) was released, former Defence Secretary Lord Browne warned of the possibility that the UK’s nuclear deterrent, Trident, will likely be rendered ‘o

Labour and Trident Now

Paul Ingram, Executive Director

This week's non-debate of Trident at the Labour Party conference is now an opportunity to reframe the issue and set the UK on a more stable path towards a non-nuclear future. But it will take collaboration between people on different sides of the current divide.

Labour Needs a Global Nuclear Disarmament Policy

Paul Ingram, Executive Director

Once again Trident emerges as a key flag issue that establishes where candidates for the Labour leadership election stand. Andy Burnham has perhaps the most difficult task, being deeply sceptical about nuclear weapons personally but claiming that current international instability, and particularly Russian threats to European security, means it is not now the time for Britain to consider abandoning the weapons.

Where is the UK government’s nuclear weapons policy heading?

Whichever way you look at it, it seems that the fiscal hawks and disarmament doves have been blown out of the sky and have sunk into a deep blue ocean where the Trident Successor programme stares them head-on.

Britain, NATO, and the Nuclear Way Forward

Ted Seay, Senior Policy Consultant

The British general election has come and gone, the UK has once again been humiliated at the Eurovision song contest, the May bank holiday is behind us, and all appears ready for another dreary summer.

UK nuclear weapons - a source of insecurity?

Paul Ingram, Executive Director

The UK doggedly maintains an ‘independent nuclear deterrent’ but a naval officer has blown the whistle on the system’s inherent insecurity—with its potentially incalculable implications.

UK Nuclear Policy Now: Questions Remain

Paul Ingram, Executive Director

The Conservatives fought the election with a clear policy of like-for-like renewal of the Trident nuclear weapon system, and now have a majority in Parliament and fully control the government. The Labour Party also contested the election on a similar policy.

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Trident Wrapped Up?

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Concerning SSBN Vulnerability - recent papers

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Trident Advocates Target the Air-Launched Option

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The impact of cyber vulnerability

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Labour and Trident Now

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Labour Needs a Global Nuclear Disarmament Policy

Where is the UK government’s nuclear weapons policy heading?

Britain, NATO, and the Nuclear Way Forward

UK nuclear weapons - a source of insecurity?

UK Nuclear Policy Now: Questions Remain

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