The British authorities revealed the London plan to increase the number of British nuclear warheads to 260 heads. British Minister of Defense Ben Wallace stated that the country is not considering either giving up its current submarine missile carriers in favour of nuclear deterrent alternatives or adding enough additional nuclear delivery vehicles to keep up with them.
This was said by the British Minister during his address on Wednesday in answer to inquiries from the members of the Parliamentary Defense Committee.
“We opted to establish our own nuclear deterrent many years ago, and unlike France and the United States, we elected to include only one component – the missiles that are launched from submarines,” Ben Wallace continued. We don’t have any intentions to alter the method we review since it already possesses our nuclear deterrence.
” This response came from the British minister, to a question about whether his country is planning to join Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey, where the United States plans to publish the developed bb “.
The Parliamentary Committee’s members responded by saying that maintaining such a nuclear deterrent will be significantly less expensive than maintaining the British “Vangeard” submarines.
Wallace mentioned that the number of British nuclear weapons will increase from 225 to 260 while discussing the upgrades to his nuclear arsenal.
It is noteworthy that this information was already mentioned during the comprehensive review of the United Kingdom’s security, defense and foreign policy, which was presented in March last year, designed for the period until 2030.
Addressing the parliamentarians: “The issue of how to distribute and spread warheads, as you understand, is a very sensitive issue, and I cannot discuss them, but it must be understood that we keep a nuclear deterrent at a level that corresponds to the level of threat. ”
It should be mentioned that the US Defense Ministry intends to speed up the deployment of B61-12 bombs in Europe so that they may be delivered to NATO standards in December, according to a Politico newspaper report from last week.
Russia, on the other hand, has consistently expressed its belief that these American plans are blatantly provocative and go against its stated desire for full nuclear disarmament.
Britain says it has 260 nuclear warheads, a record number.
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