• Da Oeuf@slrpnk.net
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      9 days ago

      The idea of the UK not having a ‘sovereign’ nuclear deterrent is based on supply chain stuff.

      There’s nothing stopping us launching all our nukes if we wanted to, it’s just that we’d have to order some bits in from outside of the country to replenish the missiles used to carry the warheads (which are made here). That’s if any of the suppliers were still alive after we’d started nuclear Armageddon…