UK Cover-Up of Trident Missile Failure Continues Amid Demands for Inquiry

UK Cover-Up of Trident Missile Failure Continues Amid Demands for Inquiry

Post-Brexit government won’t confirm or deny failed 2016 test of nuclear missile, which MPs did not know about when they voted to renew system.

The confirmation comes after the British newspaper Sunday Times reported that the British government had covered up the failed launch, briefing Prime Minister Theresa May on the incident but keeping Parliament in the dark before ministers voted to renew the nuclear weapons system in July.