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The UK will be the LAST country to break ties with the US because the "special relationship" is just code for Nuclear Dependency.
The UK in early stages of the cold war had a choice; build a joint missile, reactor, and warhead with DeGaul and the French OR buy systems from the US. They chose to go with the US.
The UK supposedly has "Command Independence" over its nuclear weapons, i.e. we can launch without US approval, but the middle technology is US bought as are the warheads and nuclear materials. The only thing we do is build the launch platform (Trident capable Submarines) and install the nuclear materials into the warheads and afix the warheads to the missiles.
I fucking hate it.