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Editor's note
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Last summer, parliament voted to renew the UK's nuclear deterrent without knowing that a recent missile test had failed, and it's now clear that Theresa May was aware of what had happened. The row has injected new energy into the debate over Britain's nuclear policy and landed the PM in hot water – but how worried should we be that the test failed? Robert Downes explains how the submarine-borne deterrent works, and takes the measure of what we actually know.
Donald Trump's arrival in the Oval Office will surely go down as the most peculiar in decades – from weird arguments about inauguration attendances to reneging on promises to publish tax returns. To understand how we got here and what happens next, Kevin O'Gorman and Andrew MacLaren argue that you must first understand what Trump learned in reality TV land.
Public access to Stonehenge has been progressively restricted since the 1980s. Heralded as the British government's biggest ever investment in cultural heritage, there is now a proposal to bury the unsightly A303, from which millions have gazed at the prehistoric monument from passing cars, in a tunnel. Archaeologist Dan Hicks strongly disagrees, and makes the case for the importance of the bald modernity represented by the road.
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Andrew Naughtie
International Editor
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Robert J Downes, King's College London
Reports of a failed Trident missile launch have all sorts of political and security implications – but they don't necessarily spell catastrophe.
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Kevin O'Gorman, Heriot-Watt University; Andrew MacLaren, Heriot-Watt University
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Bob Doherty, University of York
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