Do we have Nuke defence's (UK)?

Question

what kind of defence(if any) do we have agaisnt Nuke missle attack from places like russia? Say if russica lauched a nuke at the Uk would we be able to tell one was coming at us and shoot it down or would we just have to brace for impact? Allways wonderd this...and the way russia is acting lately.. im more intrested than ever before lol

Answer 1

There's precious little than can be done to stop a nuclear missile in flight, let alone a hail of them.  Likely, if Russia were to take the nuclear option, it wouldn't send just one, but launch all it has, which is in excess of 8,000 warheads.

The US is hoping to perfect its nuclear defence initiative and has gained basing rights in the UK and central Europe, but the technology is still highly experimental and few people are convinced of its capability, at least not against a full-scale nuclear strike.

The best we can hope for is that our stockpile of 200 warheads in our 4 nuclear subs, alongside France's and America's nukes will be a sufficient deterrent to prevent the Russians going down that road.

Answer 2

russia have been known to have a mass arsenal of nukes (they brag about 5,000 of them).

from what ive read and saw on programmes, there's no actual defence for falling nukes. its impossible to shoot them down as they are travelling faster than the speed of sound and to shoot down so many nukes would be impossible. every city in the uk would get hit not just london.

all the uk would do would be to retaliate by sending them the same courtesy and dropping nukes back on russia.

Answer 3

Yes we do, although I'm not sure if we could shoot it down, the main deterrent to stop Russia firing at us is that we have our own missiles in the trident submarines.

The US wants to build some missile defences in Poland but the Russians don't like that, I think they also may have some built in the UK.

Answer 4

yes we do ,but not as big as America or Russia but my husband has told me (i went to ask him) that the  West Europeans acts as one if it is threatened. i don't know if that is true.

Answer 5

brace for impact, or buy my book telling you how to survive it.

Answer 6

we have a defence system that will limit the damage a nuclear strike will cause, we also have the capability's to respond with our own nukes, but it will never happen unless a rouge muslim state gets their hands on one

Answer 7

Yes, it's called the Strategic Defence Initiative, better known as Star Wars, it's an American built system that not only defends America but her allies as well. Introduced by Ronald Regan, the system was to destroy and intercept enemy missiles before any of them reached our own soil or that of our allies. The current system is in place across North America and Western Europe.

  America want to replace the ageing and out of date missile shield with the latest one called The Son of Star Wars to be placed across North America, Japan, Western Europe including UK, and Eastern Europe (Poland and the Ceczh Republic)

Would the system work? Well, lets not try and find out!

This missile shield is primarilly aimed at Iran and North Korea, because they are likely threats to our existence, Russia isn't. Depite all that is happening recently, the hole talk of nuking one another is insane and just wond'nt happen.