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    The USUK Mutual Defense Agreement, or the 1958 UKUS Mutual Defence Agreement, is a bilateral treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom...
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    reactor, a design made available as a direct result of the 1958 USUK Mutual Defence Agreement. The Royal Navy had been researching designs for nuclear propulsion...
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    as a credible deterrent. Along with the 1958 USUK Mutual Defence Agreement, the Polaris Sales Agreement became a pillar of the nuclear Special Relationship...
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  • The UKUS extradition treaty of 2003 was implemented by the UK in the Extradition Act 2003 and came into force in April 2007 following its ratification...
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    McMahon Act, and the 1958 USUK Mutual Defence Agreement (MDA), which allowed Britain to acquire nuclear weapons systems from the US, thereby restoring the...
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    the amendment of the McMahon Act. Since the 1958 USUK Mutual Defence Agreement, the US and the UK have cooperated extensively on nuclear security matters...
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    Relationship with the United States in the form of the 1958 USUK Mutual Defence Agreement. During the Second World War, Britain had a nuclear weapons...
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    maintain their nuclear weapons. This effort culminated in the 1958 USUK Mutual Defence Agreement. One of the results of that treaty was that Britain was allowed...
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    less on ambassadors and embassies. Through the US-UK Mutual Defence Agreement signed in 1958, the UK and US resumed military technological cooperation on...
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  • Rolls-Royce PWR (category Trident (UK nuclear programme))
    Westinghouse S5W reactor, provided to Britain under the 1958 US-UK Mutual Defence Agreement. The first British naval reactor was the PWR1. It was based...
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