We hear about the United States' nuclear missiles and the damage they can cause. However, where are these weapons built and ...

In a rare tour of the early-warning radar at RAF Fylingdales, The i Paper joins a crew training to detect ballistic missile ...

Britain leases from the U.S. the ballistic missiles that carry its nuclear warheads. Those Trident missiles are test-fired from British submarines near Cape Canaveral under American supervision ...

Even the American-made Trident II D5 ballistic missiles which carry nuclear warheads aren’t owned under the terms of the 1958 British-US mutual defence agreement and 1963 Polaris sales agreement.

Rising sea levels and extreme weather events increasingly threaten the US submarine force's infrastructure. They could also disrupt nuclear missions.

The Trident system therefore relies on the US for support and maintenance. Vanguard-class submarine HMS Vigilant, one of the UK's four nuclear warhead-carrying submarines. Alamy/PA/Danny Lawson The UK ...

Each mounts a single warhead and has a range of up to 5,600 miles ... An atomic sub equipped with Trident II nuclear missiles ...