
The United Kingdom will plow ahead with its new submarine-launched warhead no matter what happens this year with the planned W93 in the U.S., and the warhead replacement program has nothing to do with the Kingdom’s recent decision to increase its warhead cap, an official with the Ministry of Defence said this week. The U.K. has only submarine-launched ballistic missiles in its nuclear arsenal and is in the early stages of replacing the modified U.S. W76-1, known as the Trident…