The United Kingdom and the future of nuclear weapons / edited by Andrew Futter.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the Trident debate renewed / Andrew Futter -- British nuclear strategy: history and culture -- 70 years of British nuclear debates: a brief history / Daniel Salisbury -- The UK nuclear deterrent: a system of systems / David Jarvis -- UK Trident renewal: antecedents and decision-making / Kristan Stoddart -- The silence of British nuclear culture / Jon Hogg --? trident renewal: the wider context -- The heterogeneity of UK military views on nuclear weapons / Henrietta Wilson -- The Trident renewal decision, the UK and the NPT / Shatabhisha Shetty and Lukasz Kulesa -- The legality and legitimacy of Trident renewal / William Walker -- Trident and the special relationship / Heather Williams -- Dangerous and inhumane: the implications for UK nuclear policy of international strategies to apply humanitarian law and prohibit nuclear weapons / Rebecca Johnson -- Bairns not bombs: the Scottish anti-nuclear movement and the British nuclear state / Catherine Eschle -- Next steps, politics and future challenges -- Sustaining Trident: nuclear absolutism and nuclear symbolism / Nick Ritchie -- Next steps in the UK's nuclear warhead programme: what future for the atomic weapons establishment? / Peter Burt -- The future of political opposition to Trident / Toby Fenwick -- Future challenges for UK nuclear deterrence / Andrew Futter.