Trident: Does the Nuclear Deterrent Work?
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Politics of Nuclear Weapons in the UK
There's a lot of politics around the shipyard at barrow. The unions are well on board for building these submarines. These represent very high and manufacturing design jobs. Not having nuclear weapons is really to challenge that idea of what sort of a state the united kingdom is. That's really deeply embedded. A here you're getting into the culture of nuclear weapons in a country. And by extension, frayne, the retention of nuclear weapons with kind of strength, protection, status, influence. Some more new an some can be really quite explicit.
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