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US nuclear warhead standoff ‘has significant implications for UK’

Biden administration expected to take ‘critical look’ at next-generation warhead, estimated to be twice as explosive as Trident

Britain’s most senior defence official admitted there would be “very significant implications” for the future of the Trident nuclear deterrent if Democrats in the US Congress refused to fund a next-generation warhead.

Sir Stephen Lovegrove, permanent secretary at the Ministry of Defence, said that the UK was monitoring the US standoff closely but could not say what impact a refusal to start work on the new W93 warhead would have – or how many billions it would cost.

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