Has the UK’s dependence on the US become a Faustian pact?
Articles on Trident
Displaying 1 - 20 of 28 articles
The election of Donald Trump as US president puts the UK in a tricky position on many global issues. But even beyond concerns about Nato’s stability or the special relationship, the UK has serious internal…
Commitment to nuclear deterrence has become a de facto criterion for entering No. 10.
What the UK’s main political parties have pledged on foreign policy in their manifestos.
To understand how a new world war might play out, it’s important to remember just how powerful the US really is.
The way Corbyn’s Labour has handled Trident and defence is perfectly in line with Labour’s history since the 1960s.
The entire concept of nuclear deterrence depends on the assumption that everything will always work perfectly.
Reports of a failed Trident missile launch have all sorts of political and security implications – but they don’t necessarily spell catastrophe.
An industry in crisis needs a government that can deliver help where it’s needed.
MPs have voted to upgrade Trident, despite the enormous price tag and questions over its utility.
Laugh at Jeremy Corbyn all you like, but he’s right: nuclear deterrence isn’t a zero-sum game.
Corbyn can’t replicate his wider popularity among MPs. Will it cost him?
British chief of defence staff did cross the line when discussing the nuclear option.
Is George Osborne deploying the ‘Deep State’ to secure a long-term nuclear arsenal for Britain?
With strong views on NATO and the EU, the new leader of the opposition is bound to ruffle feathers abroad.
Splits over Trident can create stalemate between the UK’s forces, but the public needs to debate renewing the deterrent before time runs out.
The structures in place to prosecute and protect military whistleblowers are outdated Cold War relics – and we don’t even know how they’re being used.
On defence, the Labour manifesto is full of fine words, but lacking in substance.
The future of four submarines has become the spat-of-the-day in election 2015.
Nicola Sturgeon has set out her Scottish National Party’s opposition to renewing Britain’s nuclear deterrent. Will it cost that much?
Top contributors
-
Associate Professor of Security and International Relations, Royal Danish Defence College
-
Professor, Department of Politics & International Relations, University of York
-
Professor of International Politics, University of Leicester
-
Professor of Applied Economics, Birkbeck, University of London
-
Chair in Scottish Politics, University of Aberdeen
-
Research Director, ScotCen Social Research
-
Professor of International Security, King's College London
-
Professor of British Politics, University of Leeds
-
Researcher in Security and Defence, the Policy Institute at King's, King's College London
-
Visiting Lecturer,, University of Birmingham
-
Visiting Fellow, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex; University of Tartu; Utrecht University
-
Professor of War and Technology, University of Bath
-
Emeritus Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Aberdeen
-
Professor of Science & Technology Policy, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
-
Lecturer Human Resources, University of Leeds