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President Carter was delighted with the decision. So was West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Basking in the approval of major NATO allies, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government last week announced that it would buy the submarine-launched U.S. Trident missile system to replace an aging Polaris force and...
In announcing the Trident deal to the House of Commons, Defense Secretary Francis Pym explained the government's politico-military rationale. "We need to convince Soviet leaders," he said, "that even if they thought at some critical point, as a conflict developed, that the U.S. would hold back, the...
Britain's nuclear debate is less concerned with doctrine than with money. Specifically, the question is whether the British should buy 80 U.S.-built Trident missiles (range 4,350 miles) to replace the aging 2,880-mile Polaris in a modernized nuclear submarine force. The costs of the Tridents...
One option would be to continue the Polaris system but build it around modernized warheads and the replacement of aging submarines. That scenario would not be feasible unless Lockheed, Polaris' builder, could be persuaded to keep its production line open to provide the missiles for the new Royal Navy...
Given the relatively poor quality of surveying instruments used in 1774 and the common practice of basing astronomical observations on the moons of Jupiter rather than the star Polaris, it is amazing that the boundary between Derby Line, Vt., and Rock Island, Que., is as close to the "true" 45th...