Britain's plan to update Trident missiles with American warheads means we remain a nuclear client state of the US

There is a hidden bonus of over £2bn to US corporations if the government goes ahead with building new nuclear warheads.

American firm Lockheed Martin has a large share in the management and ownership of the UK's nuclear weapons factories at Aldermaston. It is also owns a company called Insys, whose purpose is to tell you and me through the government whether Aldermaston is doing a good job.

Documents obtained from the libraries of successive US presidents show that the US has not only supplied Britain with nuclear weapons designs but also with some of the nuclear explosive materials at the heart of the warheads.

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