Trident missile launch 'an honour and a burden'

The job in Britain of pulling the trigger that launches a 60-tonne Trident missile capped with up to 12 nuclear warheads falls on a father of three who describes it as “an honour and a burden”.

The trigger is modelled on a Colt 45 Peacemaker pistol.

“There is no big red button with ‘fire’ on it,” said Lieutenant Commmander Woods, whose first name and other details have been withheld for security reasons.