The United Kingdom has been secretly operating a program to develop a new nuclear warhead. The effort is akin to the U.S. Reliable Replacement Warhead program, and aims to produce a warhead that could be tested without an actual nuclear detonation.

The author looks at how Britain became the "world's premier surveillance society", with over 4 million CCTV cameras in active use, and how the use of these devices to track the subway bombers have changed the debate.

Great Britain is not known as a major space power, but that country's military has grown reliant on space-based capabilities like communications satellites. Taylor Dinerman suggests that this dependence may force the UK to develop defensive -- or even offensive -- space weapons.