28.02.2016 - 06:12 [ HeraldScotland ]

Revelations of Trident upgrade prompt claims that UK nukes are under American control

A major upgrade of a top-secret system for targeting Trident warheads has sparked fears that the UK‘s nuclear weapons are effectively under the control of the USA.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has completed an eight-year overhaul of the high-security computer software used to determine which cities and military facilities across the world would be hit by nuclear bombs in the event of war. Details of the upgrade are “classified”.