The SNP has long objected to Britain’s nuclear deterrent being based in Scotland. Geopolitics — and domestic politics — are ...

The UK is one of Europe's two nuclear powers, but an expert has warned that its nuclear deterrent has one flaw.

The UK's nuclear deterrence relies on Washington in one key respect - a leading academic warns it leaves Britain exposed.

Now that Washington is potentially an unreliable ally, the UK needs to revisit its nuclear strategy. But going alone is ...

BRITAIN’S new behemoth submarines equipped with lethal torpedoes, nuclear missiles and stealthy rudders are being built – in ...

British PM Keir Starmer said Russia feared Britain’s submarine-based nuclear deterrent and "appreciated the weapon" ...

Royal Navy submarines have suffered a few mishaps recently, but the country’s Trident programme shows we’re still a potent ...

Homeland defence is not some abstract concept to the countries bordering Russia, nor is the nuclear threat, says defence analyst Francis Tusa. So, if the US could use a ‘kill switch’ to stop the UK ...

“W E WOULD BE safer if we had our own nuclear arsenal,” Donald Tusk, Poland’s prime minister, told his country’s parliament ...

Sir Keir said he had been moved by his visit to the Vanguard class submarine which would be responsible for firing the UK's Trident nuclear missiles if he was ever required to give the order.

In the other it failed to ignite and tumbled into the waves. Well, I have seen a British Trident missile leap from the sea, in the days when it definitely did work. Belched from its submarine tube ...