Britain has laid the keel for the Royal Navy's largest-ever submarine. At BAE Systems's Barrow-in-Furness facility, the ...

BRITAIN’S new behemoth submarines equipped with lethal torpedoes, nuclear missiles and stealthy rudders are being built – in ...

Now that Washington is potentially an unreliable ally, the UK needs to revisit its nuclear strategy. But going alone is costly, and partnering with France poses its own risks.

Scots support retaining the UK’s nuclear deterrent, a new poll shows, with less than a quarter favouring disarmament. The ...

Homeland defence is not some abstract concept to the countries bordering Russia, nor is the nuclear threat, says defence analyst Francis Tusa. So, if the US could use a ‘kill switch’ to stop the UK ...

British PM Keir Starmer said Russia feared Britain’s submarine-based nuclear deterrent and "appreciated the weapon" ...

In the other it failed to ignite and tumbled into the waves. Well, I have seen a British Trident missile leap from the sea, in the days when it definitely did work. Belched from its submarine tube ...

Royal Navy submarines have suffered a few mishaps recently, but the country’s Trident programme shows we’re still a potent ...

Trident is Britain's independent nuclear deterrent, consisting of four submarines: HMS Vanguard, Victorious, Vigilant, and Vengeance.

It’s a new day in Europe. Gone are the halcyon years of unshakeable American commitment to Europe’s defense against Russia.

Sir Keir said he had been moved by his visit to the Vanguard class submarine which would be responsible for firing the UK's Trident nuclear missiles if he was ever required to give the order.