Sentences with phrase «replacement nuclear submarines»

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My Oxford colleague Blake Ewing makes an engaging case in favour of the UK pursuing unilateral nuclear disarmament — that is, scrapping the planned replacement programme for the Royal Navy's Vanguard - class submarines, which currently carry the Trident D5 missile — as a solution to the country's fiscal travails.

The final replacement took place in 1996, and left the UK entirely dependent on the US for its nuclear submarine technology.

In December 2006 the government published a defence white paper advocating Trident replacement and on March 14th 2007 parliament voted by 409 votes to 161 in favour of authorising the government to take steps to maintain Trident nuclear weapons system after the Vanguard - class submarines leave service in the mid-2020s.