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

Britain has laid the keel for the Royal Navy's largest-ever submarine. At BAE Systems's Barrow-in-Furness facility, the ...

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

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

Trident is Britain's independent nuclear deterrent, consisting of four submarines: HMS Vanguard, Victorious, Vigilant, and ...

Sir Keir Starmer has been told to put plans in place for a "terrifying strategic betrayal" of Donald Trump bringing the UK-US Trident nuclear missile partnership to an end. The missiles ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

Scots support retaining the UK’s nuclear deterrent, a new poll shows, with less than a quarter favouring disarmament. The ...