Next Generation U.K. Boomers Benefit from U.S. Relationship

When the inhabitants of Scotland voted three months ago to remain part of the United Kingdom, their decision preserved not only a 307-year-old union with England and Wales but also two sites of crucial strategic importance.

Nestled beneath heather-clad hills on the shores of adjacent sea lochs 25 miles northwest of Glasgow, the Royal Navy (RN) submarine base at Faslane and the nuclear weapons depot at Coulport were both earmarked for closure under the Scottish National Party’s plans for independence.

Had the avowedly anti-nuclear SNP triumphed in the 18 September referendum—a feat it very nearly pulled off—then the future of Britain’s Trident ballistic-missile force would have looked as bleak as those same hills under the gray skies of a northern winter.

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