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Is Britain's nuclear deterrent actually owned and controlled by the US military?

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Is Britain's nuclear deterrent actually owned and controlled by the US military?

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  1. They have their own R&D and science stuff called AWE for their nukes just like how the US has the DOE/NNSA.


  2. Both are directed by the combination of the Big ones, like Rockefeller, Rothschild, etc. If they need a war, it will happen.

  3. Britains entire nuclear arsenal is owned by the UK, submarine based in Royal Navy vessels and therefore totally under a British chain of command.

    The fact that its made in by the US is about as revelavent as the steel for the sub coming from India.

  4. No I'm afraid it isn't its owned and controlled by us brits so i wouldn't go winding us up.

  5. No I don't believe so, however most of the original stockpile were American made.

    A Scottish friend of mine gave me a brief history a couple years back explaining how the Brits had started their own program, spent millions of pounds developing delivery systems and platforms only to scrap them because of pressure to buy the American material which was not compatible with what the British had in development.

    I do believe that today's arsenal is primarily British built and controlled however.

  6. We control all. USA rocks!

  7. No I don't think so and Britain had its own nuclear program and it still dose also i would like to say it helped Israel to have the bomb.

  8. The British nuclear weapons programme is dependent on American co-operation, but it is essentially our own.

    We use American nuclear test sites.  TRIDENT is an American system, though it is tailor-made for our particular requirements.  The missiles are, I believe, also a modified American design.  The warheads come from American stockpiles.

    This deal allows our nuclear weapons deterrent to be on a par with France's, but at half the price, saving us billions of pounds of taxpayer's money.  It is, regrettably, dependent on American co-operation for R&D and so on, but the big red button is firmly in Number 10.  I'd rather it be that way than the other way round.

  9. The arsenal itself - sea based - is owned and controlled by the UK, it is 'serviced' in the states though

  10. How silly does it get? I'll bet your French or Muslim. Worse yet, a frog-muslim hybrid?

  11. I sincerely hope not. I dont think it is as Royal Navy Ballistic missile submarines can launch simply by turning a pair of keys simultaneously and then pressing a button, whereas US nuclear deterrent missiles need launch codes from the president and would be vulnerable in the event of a sneak attack

  12. No it isnt!
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