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Under Thatcher the country has asserted itself more on the world stage than at any other time since the 1956 loss of the Suez Canal, an event widely regarded as the end of Britain's days as a major world power. She presided over the 1982 victory against Argentina in...
But a retired U.S. Navy officer, who commanded the nuclear-powered submarine Polaris, said officials had studied such a "worstcase scenario" and concluded there would be "no danger from this."
The government of Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is planning to replace Britain's fleet of four Polaris nuclear submarines, which will become obsolete in the late 1990s, with larger and faster Trident missile subs at a cost of more than $12 billion. Owen opposes buying the U.S.-built replacements...
Locally they are known as "scraphogs," and a few wear T shirts with a cartoon of a wild boar grinding a bomb in its teeth. Just after dawn each day, about 40 gather at the hillside, pick up pails and sift through the dirt and sagebrush for rusted metal and...
During Reagan's first term, the U.S. retired 21 Titan II missiles, which are considered obsolete; the remaining 33 are being phased out at the rate of one a month. Eight Polaris submarines with 64 long-range missiles were also retired, but three new Trident subs, carrying 576 missiles, more...