[Dumpster Baby]

The typical scenario would see the weapon being dropped from a crane while being loaded on or off a submarine.

I would think that a Trident warhead going off on the dock or on the sub deck would totally fubar anything and everything in sight, and no mechanical safety design could withstand a nuclear fireball a few yards away. I would think that a warhead going off in the "Sherwood Forest" launch tubes would vaporized everything instantly, so how could it be physically possible to safety the other warheads as they are being vaporized?

I guess I need to read up on designing thermonuclear-proof-at-50-feet hardware.

[Tallguy]

One of the problems that the DoD tried to address during the Cold War was that of ‘fratricide’, or the tendency of a detonating warhead to prevent later arriving warheads from exploding properly. This suggests that any Syop would have to launch ballistic missiles & cruise missiles in waves and have the targets spaced out during each wave so that 1 nuke wouldn’t influence another.

I would think that a dropped Trident detonating would probably not cause a chain of nuclear detonations. Of course 1 would be bad enough.

I wonder what kind of warheads the Brits are sticking on their Tridents? Could it be a US-design?