Amendments to U.S.-U.K. Nuclear Weapons Cooperation Agreement Take Effect

The State Department announced yesterday that the U.S. and U.K. governments brought into force amendments to the 1958 Mutual Defense Agreement. “This Agreement allows our two nations to exchange equipment as well as classified and controlled unclassified information for defense purposes,” the State Department notes. “It is the most comprehensive such agreement that the United States has with any country.”