“I USED TO joke”, says a former Pentagon official, “that the only thing British about British nuclear weapons is the fissile material. Everything else is American.” That is an exaggeration. But not by ...

One winter’s day in June 1956, Britain detonated the largest weapon ever exploded in Australia. The test, code-named Mosaic G2, was conducted at Western Australia’s remote Montebello Islands, site of ...

The ritual for an incoming prime minister, unchanged for decades, has never been so fraught with significance. Soon after Andy Burnham enters No 10, he will be taken to a secure room where Air Chief ...