Cold War & Beyond: Royal Navy handed keys to U.S. Navy nukes!

“I am proud to lead the Strategic Systems Programs team as the U.S. Project Officer, working with our U.K. partners committed to maintaining strategic deterrence, peace, and stability today, tomorrow, and long into the future.”-Vice Admiral Johnny Wolfe Junior, Director U.S. Strategic Systems Programs, 14DEC2023

The Joint Steering Task Group trains-up Royal Navy ballistic missile submarine crews on how the U.S. Navy nukes work, but wait, this isn’t new, it’s been in operation since 1963!

SLBM carrying USS Ohio (SSBN-726), 01OCT1981, Naval Submarine Base Groton, Connecticut. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate First Class Dale Anderson.

The UGM (Underwater-launched Guided Missile) Polaris Sales Agreement allows the two countries to share nuclear technologies, in the name of a joint defense against a common enemy.  During the non-declared Cold War the enemy was the Soviet Union, today it is Communist China, North Korea and Russia.

The launch of a Trident SLBM from the nuclear-powered USS MICHIGAN (SSBN-727), 21NOV1982. U.S. Navy photo.

In 1982, the Polaris Sales Agreement was amended to include the UGM Titan-2 Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM).

A UGM-27 Polaris SLBM is launched from the British nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine HMS Revenge (S 27).

In 2006, the Polaris Sales Agreement was amended again; the U.S. and U.K. will jointly develop a new SLBM.

Rear Admiral Robbie Lauchlan, Royal Navy Chief Strategic Systems Executive, shakes hands with Vice Admiral Johnny Wolfe Jr, U.S. Navy Director Strategic Systems Programs, during the 200th meeting of the U.S.-U.K. Joint Steering Task Group on 14DEC2023, at Strategic Weapons Facility Atlantic, in Kings Bay, Georgia. U.S. Navy photo Shelby Thompson.

On 14DEC2023, the 200th meeting of the U.S.-U.K. Joint Steering Task Group was commemorated at the U.S. Navy’s Strategic Weapons Facility Atlantic, Kings Bay, in the U.S. state of Georgia.  Video report by Austin Rooney and Petty Officer Second Class Tyler Wheaton, while this report was apparently recorded on 14DEC2023, it was not released until 01FEB2024:

U.S. Vice Admiral Johnny Wolfe, Junior, signs the official condolence book for the British empire’s Queen Elizabeth the Second, 16SEP2022. Photo via U.K. embassy.

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