A Nuclear Weapons-Free World?The Submarine-Building Industry
A Nuclear Weapons-Free World?: The Submarine-Building Industry
Ritchie, Nick
2015-11-03 00:00:00
[By 1998 the UK’s nuclear capability had been reduced to a single system of Trident II (D5) missiles aboard Vanguard-class ballistic missile submarines following the retirement of the last WE-177 free-fall gravity bombs (see Chapter 1 for further detail). In 2006 the Labour government’s White Paper on Trident replacement opted for a like-for-like replacement system beginning with the procurement of a new fleet of ‘Successor’ ballistic missile submarines to carry the Trident missile. The fourth key enabler of Trident replacement explored in this study is the UK’s indigenous nuclear-powered submarine-building industry keen to secure contracts for a fleet of new ‘Successor’ submarines to replace the aging Vanguard boats.]
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A Nuclear Weapons-Free World?The Submarine-Building Industry
[By 1998 the UK’s nuclear capability had been reduced to a single system of Trident II (D5) missiles aboard Vanguard-class ballistic missile submarines following the retirement of the last WE-177 free-fall gravity bombs (see Chapter 1 for further detail). In 2006 the Labour government’s White Paper on Trident replacement opted for a like-for-like replacement system beginning with the procurement of a new fleet of ‘Successor’ ballistic missile submarines to carry the Trident missile. The fourth key enabler of Trident replacement explored in this study is the UK’s indigenous nuclear-powered submarine-building industry keen to secure contracts for a fleet of new ‘Successor’ submarines to replace the aging Vanguard boats.]
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