The United Kingdom's independent strategic nuclear deterrent : observations on the 2006 White Paper and issues for the parliamentary debate /
Michael Codnor, Gavin Ireland, and Lee Willett
- London : RUSI, 2007
- vii, 17 p.
- Whitehall report. 1-07 .
Provides background information considered relevant to the government's deliberations about the future of UK's nuclear deterrent. Finds that a submarine based system is the only viable option, that such a deterrent does not breach Britain's NPT obligations, that conflict between major states remains a strategic concern for the future and deterrence remains a policy instrument.