The main aim is to replace obsolete components at minimal cost by using commercial off the shelf ( COTS ) hardware ; all the while maintaining the demonstrated performance of the existing Trident II missiles.

Trident Ploughshares ( originally named Trident Ploughshares 2000 ) is an activist anti-nuclear weapons group, founded in 1998 with the aim of " beating swords into ploughshares " ( taken from the Book of Isaiah ).

In the House of Commons, 161 MPs ( 88 of them Labour ) voted against the renewal of Trident and the Government motion was carried only with the support of Conservatives.

There was increasing tension between the superpowers following the deployment of American Pershing missiles in Western Europe, SS20s in the Soviet Bloc countries and Britain's replacement of the Polaris armed submarine fleet with Trident missiles.

It was followed by Trident I in 1979, and Trident II in 1990.

The agreement was amended in 1982 to provide the Trident missile system to the UK.

The Polaris Sales Agreement was used as the model for the UK's purchase of the Trident weapon system to replace Polaris in British service.

Trident I ( designated C4 ) was deployed in 1979 and retired in 2005.

Trident II ( designated D5 ) had the objective of improved accuracy, and was first deployed in 1990, and was planned to be in service for the thirty-year life of the submarines, until 2027.

Trident missiles are provided to the United Kingdom under the terms of the 1963 Polaris Sales Agreement which was modified in 1982 for Trident.

The Trident was built in two variants: the I ( C4 ) UGM-96A and II ( D5 ) UGM-133A, however there is no direct relation between these two missiles.

The Trident II was the original missile on the British Vanguard and Ohio SSBNs from on.

HMX, C < sub > 4 </ sub > H < sub > 8 </ sub > N < sub > 4 </ sub >( NO < sub > 2 </ sub >)< sub > 4 </ sub >, a nitramine with greater energy than ammonium perchlorate, was used in the propellant of the Peacekeeper ICBM and is the main ingredient in NEPE-75 propellant used in the Trident II D-5 Fleet Ballistic Missile.

The 8048 was used in the Magnavox Odyssey² video game console, the Korg Trident series, the Korg Poly-61, Roland Jupiter-4 and Roland ProMars analog synthesizers.

Regulus not only provided the first nuclear strategic deterrence force for the United States Navy during the first years of the Cold War and especially during the Cuban Missile Crisis, preceding the Polaris missiles, Poseidon missiles, and Trident missiles that followed, but it also was the forerunner of the Tomahawk cruise missile.

The Beatles was recorded between 30 May 1968 and 14 October 1968, largely at Abbey Road Studios, with some sessions at Trident Studios.

One approach, which made it possible to proceed with such new strategic weapon systems as the B-1 bomber, the Trident nuclear submarine, and cruise missiles, was agreement to a substantial cut in conventional forces.

Scipion was saved from destruction by her sister ship Trident ( 74 ), which succeeded in attaching a tow-line to the fireship and, with the assistance of Dartmouth and 2 other British boats, pulling it clear.

Their first long-playing album was recorded at Trident Studios in London and produced by Ian Samwell.

These were mostly rehearsals, however, as they planned to record the master track at Trident Studios to utilise their eight-track recording machine ( Abbey Road was still limited to four-tracks ).

The master rhythm track was recorded on 31 July at Trident.

The album was recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales and mixed at Trident Studios in London.

Orleans was produced by Englishman Robin Lumley, mixed at Trident Studios in London and featured Lumley's friend, Phil Collins, contributing backing vocals to a track.

Powered by the same engine was the Trident, a luxury sports car with a steel and aluminium body that was designed by Carrozzeria Fissore in Savigliano, Italy, and was built by hand.

It campaigns for the cancellation of Trident by the British government and against the deployment of nuclear weapons in Britain.

* 1995 – The Norwegian Rocket Incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.

The arrangements were almost identical to that for Polaris, the United Kingdom procured the Trident system from America and fitted them to their own submarines, the Vanguard-class.

The US $ 503 million program would have converted existing Trident II missiles ( presumably two missiles per submarine ) into conventional weapons, by fitting them with modified Mk4 reentry vehicles equipped with GPS for navigation update and a reentry guidance and control ( trajectory correction ) segment to perform 10 m class impact accuracy.

* Robert Baratheon is known for using a war hammer in battles, with which he killed Prince Rhaegar in the Battle of the Trident.

Gecko is the third most-common layout engine on the World Wide Web, after Trident ( used by Internet Explorer for Windows since version 4 ) and WebKit ( used by Safari and Google Chrome ), and followed by Presto ( used by Opera ).

In 1956, Lockheed received a contract for the development of the Polaris Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile ( SLBM ), this would be followed by the Poseidon and Trident nuclear missiles.

NUTS theory can be seen in the US adoption of a number of first strike weapons, such as the Trident II and Minuteman III nuclear missiles, which both have an extremely low circular error probable ( CEP ) of about 90 meters for the former and 120 meters for the latter.

CEP is about 90 – 100 m for the Trident II and Peacekeeper missiles.

Trident Seafoods operates a large processing plant west of the City for cod, crab, pollock and fish meal.

An airport for Trident is currently under construction on Akun Island, about 6 miles away, and is scheduled to be completed late 2012.

Bangor's eight submarines have 24 Trident I missiles per boat with eight warheads per missile, for a total of 1, 536.

Since its inception, notable guest editors have included: David Blunkett, who used the programme as an opportunity to ' turn the tables ' on John Humphrys in 2005 ; Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, whose appearance on 29 December 2006 encompassed discussions of his growing concerns about the ' justification ' for the invasion of Iraq, Britain's role in the affair, and the consequences for British armed forces ; and Peter Hennessy, who, on 28 December 2007, led a visit to HMS Vigilant ( a British Trident submarine ) alongside its base at Faslane.

Eugen Richter of the Liberal Radical Union opposing the bill observed that if it was intended for Germany now seriously to take up the Trident to match its other forces then such a small force would not suffice and there would be no end to ship building.

Trident Television was formed in March 1969 as a joint venture to sell advertisements for Tyne Tees and Yorkshire.

On 12 August 1959, BEA signed a firm, £ 28 million contract for 24 de Havilland DH121 Trident Mark 1 ( C ) " second-generation " jets plus 12 options, making it the launch customer for the world's first commercial T-tailed rear-engined trijet due to enter enter service in spring 1964.

Meeting BEA's specifications for the Trident involved reducing the length of the aircraft's fuselage, its wingspan and weight and replacing the Rolls-Royce RB141 / 3 " Medway " engines with Rolls-Royce RB163 " Speys ".