nuclear deterrent

• when did the UK develop their own nuclear bomb

  1952
• what was Britain's nuclear program called

  Blue Danube free-fall bomb, which was carried by the V-bombers (Valiant, Victor and Vulcan) of the RAF’s strategic bomber force from 1956
• what was the CND

  campaign for nuclear disarmament - launched in 1958
• when did the US agree to share nuclear secrets with the UK

  1958
• what was the MDA

  the mutual defence agreement - whereby the nuclear secrets were shared between the UK and US
• what did Britain gain from the MDA

  the Polaris missiles on their submarines