The Vanguard-class submarines, in service with the UK’s Royal Navy since the early 1990s, provide Britain’s primary nuclear ...

It forms the backbone of the United Kingdom’s sea-borne nuclear deterrent capability and offers decision-makers in the U.K. a ...

Mr Ramsey said: “We’re in exactly the same position as when I first joined the Navy and we had the Polaris submarines doing similar, but they were nowhere near as long patrols, because the ...

Of the U.S.’s nine deployed Polaris submarines, the Ethan Allen and five others were on patrol last week. That two-thirds ratio is standard—although during the height of the Cuba crisis ...

In place of Skybolt, the Administration reluctantly offered at Nassau to supply Polaris missiles for an independent British submarine force. Change of Mind. At the same time, the U.S. insisted ...

NEWLY released documents show that a major security lapse involving anti-nuclear protesters managing to board one of the Royal Navy’s Polaris submarines sparked a furious reaction in Whitehall. Then ...