Trump was unaware UK had nuclear weapons, Bolton says
US President Donald Trump was unaware that Britain had its own nuclear weapons, according to a book by his former US national security adviser John Bolton.
Trump’s lack of knowledge of the nuclear arsenal of America’s closest ally is one of many examples Bolton gives of the president’s ignorance of geopolitics in his memoir due to go on sale next week.
The Trump administration is trying to block the publication of the book, The Room Where it Happened.
Trump is alleged to have made the comments at a meeting with former UK prime minister Theresa May two years ago. The topic came up in 2018, when it was mentioned by one of May's officials.
"Oh, are you a nuclear power?" according to the book. Bolton said he could tell it "was not intended as a joke".
A former US official has described a similar conversation with May when Trump made a state visit to the UK in June 2019.
The UK first tested a nuclear warhead in 1952. Its current submarine-based nuclear weapons are loaded on US-made Trident missiles. Critics argue the UK is technically so dependent on the US that in effect Trident is not an independent system.
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