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The 1958 US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement is a bilateral treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom on nuclear weapons co-operation. It allows the United States and the UK to exchange nuclear materials, technology and information, and was signed on 3 July 1958, after the British hydrogen bomb programme successfully tested a thermonuclear device. While the US has nuclear co-operation agreements with other countries, this agreement is by far the most comprehensive. Part of the Anglo-American Special Relationship, it allowed American nuclear weapons to be supplied under Project E. The treaty proved mutually beneficial, and paved the way for the Polaris Sales Agreement and the Trident nuclear programme (HMS Victorious pictured), which used American missiles with British nuclear warheads. The most recent renewal of the treaty extended it to 31 December 2024. (This article is part of a featured topic: Nuclear weapons and the United Kingdom.)


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Hi Hawkeye and congratulations. A draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits from you or from anyone else interested are welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 13:52, 23 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]