Does UK have its own Nuclear weapons?

Posted by Mundane-Dirt-4077@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 13 comments

I keep hearing different things. Some sources say UK has its own that have no dependence on UK and no killswitch. Other sources say its bought from US with a killswitch they can use. I find it hard to believe out of hundreds of nuclear warheads UK has that none are its own.

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kettle_of_f1sh@reddit

I work in technical support for nuclear weapons. Yes the UK has independent nuclear weapons. There is no such thing as a ‘kill switch’, that’s Hollywood.

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TreadheadS@reddit

the F-35 on the other hand...

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kettle_of_f1sh@reddit

We don’t have nuclear capable F-35’s yet.

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MinimumIcy1678@reddit

It's one of those magazine scams, we need to buy each months issue for another 12 years to finish assembling our first missile.

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Boboshady@reddit

But the first piece was HUGE! And only £2.99...

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BenathonWrigley@reddit

They don’t have a ‘kill switch’ on the nukes. And can’t control whether we use them or not. We do rely on them for spares, maintenence and stuff though.

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CautiousCapsLock@reddit

The UK has its own nuclear weapons, production is mostly American and they’re serviced by the Americans but they can be used without American authorisation and they currently have no kill switch technology in place, however as they support them and service them, they can effectively kill the use of them long term by withdrawing support for them.

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DMBear89@reddit

Yes, some of them are stored at Faslane in Scotland

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The_Blip@reddit

We have our own warheads, which are attached missile systems we own and operate, but are dependent on the US to service.

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Too-Much-Plastic@reddit

Yes we do, what we depend on the USA for is maintenance of the missiles which means, assuming the USA broke its agreements, we'd have a few years to replace them before they started to break down. We make our own warheads funnily enough, it's the Trident 2 missile itself we lease. People assume there's a killswitch because it's foreign technology but there's no indication that there is from anyone who really knows these missiles.

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Scarred_fish@reddit

Yes, limited to 260 warheads.

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