Charlie Stross on Nostr: I began speculating about this on my blog in 2017: I think UK's Trident arrangement ...
I began speculating about this on my blog in 2017: I think UK's Trident arrangement has maybe 6-24 months left to live before Trump uses it as a blackmail lever.
UK Typhoons have the range and payload to carry Storm Shadow with updated WE.177B payloads to Moscow as an stop-gap deterrent, but realistically the UK needs to redesign the Dreadnought class to carry French M51 missiles, or pitch in for a joint European deterrent.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/08/us-support-uk-nuclear-arsenal-in-doubt-trident-france
UK Typhoons have the range and payload to carry Storm Shadow with updated WE.177B payloads to Moscow as an stop-gap deterrent, but realistically the UK needs to redesign the Dreadnought class to carry French M51 missiles, or pitch in for a joint European deterrent.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/08/us-support-uk-nuclear-arsenal-in-doubt-trident-france