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Go behind the scenes aboard one of Britain’s most powerful and secretive war machines the Trident-armed nuclear submarine.
BREMERTON — The U.S. Coast Guard is enforcing 300-yard security zones around Trident nuclear submarines traveling through Northwest inland waters in response to a "real, credible and immediate ...
Summary and Key Points: The Royal Navy's Vanguard-class nuclear submarines serve as the UK's strategic nuclear deterrent, carrying Trident II D5 missiles. Introduced in 1994, the four Vanguard ...
The bomb warning was sent into a 16,000 tonne Trident submarine’s main control room, where the person who received the call ...
LONDON — British lawmakers are seeking reassurances about the nation’s nuclear deterrent after reports that a test of the system failed dramatically last month when an unarmed missile crashed ...
BREMERTON — The Puget Sound Naval Shipyard has won a contract to convert two of the four oldest Bangor-based Trident ballistic missile submarines into cruise missile launchers. The sub ...
The new submarines will carry fewer nuclear missiles than their predecessors. Each will have launch tubes for 16 Trident D-5 missiles, for a grand total of 192 tubes spread out between the dozen ...
Brought on-stream in phases since 1994, the Trident system consists of four nuclear-powered Vanguard submarines at least one of which is on patrol at any given time. Each vessel can carry up to 16 ...
A £250 million cash injection for British nuclear weapons housed in Scotland has been branded a “gimmick”. Scottish Secretary ...
Each submarine at sea carries a significant portion of the survivable U.S. nuclear deterrent. The problem with launching an SLBM with a W76-2 is that it would reveal the submarine’s location.
CBS. Written by Wilcox, Trident centers on a mysterious death aboard an American nuclear submarine that tests the mettle of the crew, the White House, the Pentagon and the CIA and causes a crisis ...
A nuclear-capable Trident II missile test launched in the Atlantic off the coast of Florida on Jan. 30 reportedly splashed back down shortly after launching, according to Britain's The Sun newspaper.