UK buys Trident weapons
- Title
- UK buys Trident weapons
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- Mar 1982
- Year of production
- 1982
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- Duration
- 00:04:41
- Description
- Paul Maurice reports on the controversial decision of the UK Government to purchase the Trident 2 nuclear weapons system from the United States, to succeed Polaris. Speakers include: US Secretary of Defense, Caspar Weinberger; UK Defence Secretary, John Nott.
- Contributors
- John Nott; Caspar Weinberger; Paul Maurice
- Keywords
- USA; Government; UK; Great Britain; Conservative Party; Arms sales; Nuclear weapons; Defence policy; Trident
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LBC/IRN, "UK buys Trident weapons". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0006000001016 (Accessed 11 Jun 2025)