USA: Nuclear Weapons

(asked on 19th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the occasions on which US nuclear warheads have been transferred to British submarines.


Answered by
Harriett Baldwin Portrait
Harriett Baldwin
This question was answered on 26th October 2017

Since the introduction of the Trident Strategic Weapon System in 1994, no US nuclear warhead has been transferred to a Royal Navy submarine. Records prior to 1994 are not held centrally and the information could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

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