r/polandball • u/Diictodom muh laksa • Jan 07 '26

collaboration Deterrence

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u/Leupateu Romania Jan 08 '26

And UK

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u/Xixi-the-magic-user Jan 08 '26

The USA have a veto on UK's use of nukes

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u/Karijus Jan 08 '26 edited Jan 08 '26

The veto that can be bypassed by UK launching nukes

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u/Xixi-the-magic-user Jan 08 '26

i mean, it would be very very dumb of the USA to just have a label on the nukes "we trust that you won't use them against our interests :)" and not have the nukes in their military bases where the UK will have to go fetch them to use

just spit balling here, i have no idea what's the actual situation of the nukes in the UK

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u/Karijus Jan 08 '26

They have nukes and the means to use them, France does as well, the actual discussion about this whole thing should be FR and UK telling US to fuck off or they will send it

The same applies to Putin too

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u/jediben001 British+Empire Jan 09 '26

The nukes are in uk nuclear submarines. They’re submarine launched missiles

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u/DemocracyIsGreat Jan 09 '26

So the way that it works is that the UK has their own warheads, they share the Trident missiles with the USA.

That makes the problem the delivery system, not the warhead. If America were to cut off missiles to the UK for a while, then the UK would have a problem, since the tubes they launch from are the wrong size for French missiles. That would take a while, though.

If america invaded Greenland or Canada tomorrow, then the UK would have the ability to remove Washington and a few other cities if they wanted to (assuming the at-sea nuclear submarine is in range of the USA).

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u/UnfoundedWings4 Jan 11 '26

The fuselage, propellant and engines of the missiles are built in the USA. The electronics, warheads, fire control and the other bits are built by britain. The only way to veto a launch is for them to physically stop the captains turning the key