Well the UK has changed so much in the last 20 years since millennium,we are now known as the 51st state,what happens across the pond always ends up...
Do you really believe the other side without provocation would launch so many ICBM's, subs and ships knowing that we would have no option to launch as well? It would break our MAD Treaty (Mutually Assured Destruction) not to mention the end of the world as we know it.