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Originally Posted by jfman
If you suggested a mere 18 months ago that America could have kill switches in advanced weapons it sells or queried the independence of the UK nuclear deterrent you’d have been dismissed as a hard left crank. How there’s legitimacy to asking these questions as America proves itself to be an unreliable ally.
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I still think the idea of a kill-switch in the Trident missile is fanciful - they are not remote-launched and by their nature their location is unknown, as would be the timing of any launch. Establishing telemetry with a rocket is hard even when two-way comms have been carefully set up prior to launch and are actively maintained throughout flight. Big red buttons with ‘KILL’ on them are movie shorthand, they are not real life.