Jack Crawford

Any such project “would either need new manufacturing capabilities or a readiness to slow the Trident renewal programme to accommodate the creation of a new system."

This ship is part of Russia's shadow fleet. It was obvious that he was transporting military equipment that Russia sent to Syria and then took back to the Russian Federation to support its war against Ukraine. And we noticed that at that time the ship was not under sanctions. And there were no international efforts to stop it, because it was transporting not commercial, but military cargo to Russia."

It is difficult to imagine a hypothetical European deterrence that would not involve the involvement of British and French nuclear arsenals, even given that the British deterrent is technologically dependent on the United States. The development of any other European state's nuclear programs would violate its obligations under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and could increase the likelihood of a Russian attack. It is much easier to destroy an embryonic nuclear program than a fully formed one."