Monkey241:
The idea that the USA holds all the launch codes for Trident is for the brain dead.ukdefencejournal.org.uk/no-amer … r-weapons/
At its simplest - just for you Carryfast - why would the UK invest billions in a weapon that ultimately it couldn’t use independently?
The problem for your argument is that you’ve got to convince Russia not me that although the US supplies us with the Trident system we conveniently delete the permissive action link needed to launch them
Which means that America is willing to be wiped out in retaliation for a UK limited strike.
Good luck with that premise.
In which case why doesn’t the US clearly state that a nuclear attack on UK means a US mutually assured destruction response and what is the point of all the bs conventional NATO sabre rattling on Russia’s borders ( containment strategy ).
Bearing in mind that you can’t even convince me let alone Russia in that regard.
Russia clearly thinks that it can win a nuclear war against UK with good reason.Even if you are correct our nukes alone aren’t sufficient to take out enough of Russia to be a viable deterrent.