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Trident
06/05/2025
Trident
Seventy years ago, on an island off Australia, we started something we couldn’t finish. This is the story of Britain’s nuclear deterrent, Trident — why we have it and why we can’t let go of it. Keep More Jam Tomorrow going by contributing to our tip jar at . Sweet. is Director of the Conflict Research Programme at LSE IDEAS. Dr Matthew Grant is Reader and Head of the School of Philosophy, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Essex. His forthcoming book Britain's Cold War Home Front: Citizens and the State will be published by Oxford University Press, and he is the author of National Service Life Stories: Masculinity, Class, and the Memory of Conscription in Britain. The (1953) is available on YouTube, as is at the Manchester Free Trade Hall and (10 Downing Street). Parliamentary speeches read by Seth Thévoz are in Hansard. The is in the National Library of Australia. I also drew on Suzanne Doyle’s (International History Review), Matthew Grant’s (History and Policy), Nick Ritchie’s and Ian Davis’ (SIPRI/ Nuclear Education Trust). The Commons library briefing was also useful.
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