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Trident

Volume 75: debated on Thursday 21 March 1985

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asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if the Soviet Government were formally notified of Her Majesty's Government's decision to purchase the Trident missile system.

No. The then Secretary of State for Defence announced in Parliament on 15 July 1980 the Government's decision to acquire the Trident submarine-launched ballistic missile system. The background was fully set out in open Government documents 80/23 and 82/1.