The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has made a contractual commitment to hand over to a private sector consortium the maintenance of the UK’s nuclear weapons – described by the BBC as ‘Trident and Polaris weapons systems’ – held in Argyll at Faslane and Coulport on the Clyde. This raises an immediate public information issue. What is our position on the Polaris system? It was quite a shock to see it mentioned, like a rising from almost forgotten history. Source: Naval Open Source INTelligence
