Our report, Trouble Ahead: Risks and Rising Costs in the UK Nuclear Weapons Programme (2019), grew out of the day-to-day work we’ve done.
It was an attempt to give an overview of where the UK is at with its nuclear weapons upgrades.
It’s not regularly admitted but in the early 2000s the UK took a decision to upgrade every single element of its nuclear weapons capability.
The new Dreadnought submarines are the part people know most intimately.
The Trident…