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Ha! Yeah, this is really the meat of the issue. Launch missile off coast of Florida, aiming East; missile duly decides to point itself at America.
Pretty much the worst thing that can happen with a nuclear weapon. I mean really, it doesn't get any worse than that.
Trident is outdated and is clearly no longer a reliable deterrent if the things don't even work with 80% reliability.
The US does test launches fairly frequently but doesn't report the success rate.
Is it one in twenty that fail? How much is too much?Providing one is following the line of non-proliferation, what do you replace it with?
I'd be tempted to risk it and do away with them all together. If someone wants to use them against us, so be it. It's on them and it won't matter to us because we'd all be gone.
Otherwise, renew the subs and missiles but that's all. You don't need 3,000 nukes to have a deterrent, just more than 0.
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trident misfire. seeing as the shitting thing doesn't work, presumably any 'deterrent' value it may have had is now severely compromised.
if may knew about this cock up before the HoC debated renewing trident, surely she should be held to account?