Trump of course heralded it as a “great victory” and, most tellingly, said he hoped the money would be spent on buying US military hardware. Currently Britain’s nuclear weapons are located on submarines, hence sea-launched by the Navy. This new step will add air-borne nuclear weapons to the UK arsenal for the first time since. Britain last had air-borne nuclear weapons in 1998, when they were dismantled by Blair’s government. Clearly ‘military Keynesianism’, promoting military spending as an economic benefit, does not add up.