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Originally Posted by Northern Monkey
This myth that the Americans control Trident is bollocks.It's just a myth.
It doesn't run on GPS so the Americans can't turn it off and it doesn't use codes.
The only person who can authorise it's use is a UK Primeminister and the only people who can activate it are our submarine commanders.
We do share our missiles in a joint pool with the US but that's it.
And yes there was a misfire like can happen with all missile systems but it is still the most sophisticated weapons system there is,it doesn't happen often and is still one of the most reliable there is.
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Good post. Such misfires clearly pose a much lower risk than ISIS or any other insane religious ideologies that may gain access to such weapons and pose a considerable threat at any given time in the future as well as other dictators such as North Korea. It's a ridiculous comparison.