UK officials have postponed the design contract for the new Trident nuclear missile amidst growing tension that recent army deaths in Afghanistan have been directly related to a lack of equipment and vehicles.
The contract, scheduled to be signed in September 2009, has been postponed to 2010 after an international conference reviewing the non-proliferation treaty in the US next year.
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Officials, however, insisted that the existing submarines would still be replaced with nuclear submarines as outlined in 2006.
The decision to delay the initial gate design contract has been dubbed as a phased approach for the project that will enable progress on non-proliferation and multilateral disarmament, officials disclosed.
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