Nuclear War

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(30 May 2021, 20:14)Skean Dhude Wrote: Ajax, Not true. We control our own platforms and we control the codes. We offer some of our warheads to NATO but the rest are ours.

What we don't have is the launch vehicles they are owned by the US but as they are in our subs unless they request them back formally and as contract they won't get them.

You also have a fleet of planes that are delivery capable as well as the ground to ground tactical missiles of the military. Some of those missiles, equal to the V2 rockets of WW2, are equal to mid range nuke delivery devices.

During the 1950s NATO, meaning also Britain, had a a device known as the Davy Crocket, which was a 155mm artillery round equipped with a tactical nuke.

That device did have a serious drawback though. The burst radius for the Nuke was larger then the range of the weapon. They took that one offline.

It is however interesting to realize that an artillery officer with the rank of Captain had nuclear capabilities in the 1950s.