A decision to assemble Britain's Trident nuclear deterrent in the US to save UK taxpayers £500 million would eventually result in 2000 job losses in Scotland, documents from the National Archive show.
Ministers realised the ultra-sensitive issue for the Thatcher Government of replacing Polaris with a new £7.5 billion Trident system would cause alarm because of the cost, and were thus keen to reduce it wherever possible.
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