This volume provides a study of the current UK nuclear program and related issues that reflect the complexity of the Trident weapons system and the changing nature of deterrence. Presenting the political, cultural, technical, and strategic aspects of Trident it provides a thoughtful overview of the UK's complex relationship with nuclear weapons.

Foreword by Sir Lawrence Freedman
Introduction: the Trident debate renewed - Andrew Futter
Part I - British nuclear strategy: history and culture
1. 70 years of British nuclear debates: a brief history - Daniel Salisbury
2. The UK nuclear deterrent: a system of systems - David Jarvis
3. UK Trident renewal: antecedents and decision-making - Kristan Stoddart
4. The silence of British nuclear culture - Jon Hogg
Part II - Trident renewal: the wider context
5. The heterogeneity of UK military views on nuclear weapons - Henrietta Wilson
6. The Trident renewal decision, the UK and the NPT - Shatabhisha Shetty & Lukasz Kulesa
7. The legality and legitimacy of Trident renewal - William Walker
8. Trident and the special relationship - Heather Williams
9. Dangerous and inhumane: the implications for UK nuclear policy of international strategies to apply humanitarian law and prohibit nuclear weapons - Rebecca Johnson
10. Bairns not bombs: the Scottish anti-nuclear movement and the British nuclear state - Catherine Eschle
Part III - Next steps, politics and future challenges
11. Sustaining Trident: nuclear absolutism and nuclear symbolism - Nick Ritchie
12. Next steps in the UK's nuclear warhead programme: what future for the Atomic Weapons Establishment? - Peter Burt
13. The future of political opposition to Trident - Toby Fenwick
14. Future challenges for UK nuclear deterrence - Andrew Futter

Edited by Andrew Futter - Foreword by Sir Lawrence Freedman