The ritual for an incoming prime minister, unchanged for decades, has never been so fraught with significance. Soon after ...

“I USED TO joke”, says a former Pentagon official, “that the only thing British about British nuclear weapons is the fissile material. Everything else is American.” That is an exaggeration. But not by ...

It could only have happened at the height of cold war paranoia. To counter the threat of Soviet invasion, the UK planned to bury 10 huge nuclear landmines in Germany, declassified army documents from ...

A recently uncovered British government paper provides evidence of a 70-year official cover-up of the consequences of the United Kingdom’s thermonuclear tests in the Pacific after World War II. London ...

During the Cold War, Europe kept asking whether Washington would risk an American city to save a European one. It was an impolite question, but a useful one, which is why it never quite left the room.

The country is urged to acquire a fully independent nuclear weapons system to deter Russia at a time of uncertainty about the United States's commitment to Nato.

The ritual for an incoming prime minister, unchanged for decades, has never been so fraught with significance. Soon after Andy Burnham enters No 10, he will be taken to a secure room where Air Chief ...