Kingdom's Polaris programme, officially named the British Naval Ballistic Missile System, provided its first submarine-based nuclear weapons system. Polaris was...
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The Polaris Sales Agreement was a treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom which began the UK Polaris programme. The agreement was signed...
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RNAD Coulport (redirect from Polaris Jetty)
the Cold War as the storage, maintenance and loading facility for Polaris nuclear weapons. Today, Coulport is mainly used for handling Trident warheads...
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Nassau Agreement (category Polaris (UK nuclear programme))
project. The US agreed to supply the UK with Polaris submarine-launched ballistic missiles for the UK Polaris programme. Under an earlier agreement, the US...
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Chevaline (category Polaris (UK nuclear programme))
system to improve the penetrability of the warheads used by the British Polaris nuclear weapons system. Devised as an answer to the improved Soviet anti-ballistic...
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HMNB Clyde (redirect from Trident Works Programme)
negotiating the Polaris Sales Agreement with the United States regarding the purchase of a Polaris missile system to fire British-built nuclear weapons from...
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and its predecessor. Under the 1963 Polaris Sales Agreement, the US supplied the UK with Polaris missiles and nuclear submarine technology. The US also...
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The UGM-27 Polaris missile was a two-stage solid-fueled nuclear-armed submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM). As the United States Navy's first SLBM...
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Look up Polaris, polaris, Poláris, or poláris in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Polaris is a star, also known as the North Star. Polaris may also refer...
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known as the Trident nuclear programme or Trident nuclear deterrent, covers the development, procurement and operation of nuclear weapons in the United...
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Vanguard-class submarine (redirect from Vanguard nuclear submarine)
US-built UGM-27 Polaris missiles. The Polaris missile was supplied to Britain following the terms of the 1963 Polaris Sales Agreement. This nuclear deterrent...
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Three-dimensional quartz phenolic (category Polaris (UK nuclear programme))
by the British government. Chevaline Fiberglass Nuclear weapons and the United Kingdom UGM-27 Polaris Resolution-class submarine Atmospheric reentry Public...
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Avro Vulcan (section Nuclear deterrent)
brief, diminishing when the primary nuclear deterrent switched to the Royal Navy's Polaris (UK nuclear programme). On 1 October 1956, Vulcan B.1 XA897...
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class was a class of four nuclear ballistic missile submarines (SSBN) built for the Royal Navy as part of the UK Polaris programme. Each submarine was armed...
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Falstaff (rocket) (category Space programme of the United Kingdom)
1970s as part of the Chevaline programme to improve the penetrability of the Polaris nuclear missile. It was the largest UK rocket with a solid booster ever...
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UGM-27 Polaris – Retired. See the ET.317 nuclear warhead, Chevaline and the Polaris (UK nuclear programme) Trident II D5 missile - See the Trident (UK nuclear...
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WE.177 (redirect from WE.177 (nuclear weapon))
177B, and as 'Reggie' in the ET.317 version for UK Polaris. At the time, the UK's only tactical nuclear weapon was Red Beard, a relatively large weapon...
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weapons systems, with the UK Polaris programme and Trident nuclear programme using American missiles with British nuclear warheads. The treaty has been...
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ET.317 (category Polaris (UK nuclear programme))
weapon of the British Royal Navy, developed for the UK version of the UGM-27 Polaris missile. The US Polaris A-3T warhead was the US W58. Britain considered...
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anti-submarine missile and the W58 warhead for Polaris A-3 were designed to use Kinglet, while the W47 warhead for Polaris A-1/A-2 were retrofitted with Kinglet...
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Ballistic missile submarine (redirect from Nuclear missile sub)
first nuclear ballistic missile submarine was the Resolution-class of four submarines built for the Royal Navy as part of the UK Polaris programme. The...
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Labour Government and the Polaris Programme, 1964-1970. London: Routledge. 2017. The official history of the UK strategic nuclear deterrent Greenberg, Myron...
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under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The UK initiated a nuclear weapons programme, codenamed Tube Alloys, during the Second World...
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surface ships of the member states with UGM-27 Polaris missiles, but the UK ended up purchasing the Polaris missiles and using its own warheads, and the...
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Trident (missile) (redirect from Trident nuclear missile)
missiles are provided to the United Kingdom under the terms of the 1963 Polaris Sales Agreement which was modified in 1982 for Trident. British Prime Minister...
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The world's first operational nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) was USS George Washington with 16 Polaris A-1 missiles, which conducted...
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Submarine-launched, Polaris A-3 | National Air and Space Museum". airandspace.si.edu. Retrieved 2025-05-21. "Polaris A-3 (UGM-27C)". Nuclear Companion: A nuclear guide...
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United Kingdom and weapons of mass destruction (redirect from UK and WMD)
The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent: Volume II: The Labour Government and the Polaris Programme, 1964-1970 (Taylor & Francis,...
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elimination of British nuclear weapons and global abolition of nuclear weapons. It campaigns for the cancellation of the Trident programme by the British government...
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produced the highest yield of any UK nuclear test at NTS up to that date. The design saved 166 kg of plutonium across the Polaris warhead stockpile, and reduced...
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