Overview

• The UK has no fixed missile interception systems around key cities and depends on a handful of warships that are often deployed overseas or under repair.
• Professor Anthony Glees has called for an official survival guide outlining threats such as missile strikes, drone attacks, and cyber incursions.
• He suggests households should stock at least a week’s supply of food, bottled water, medication and keep battery-powered radios and chargers ready.
• France has already sent a 20-page booklet with 63 safety measures to citizens, following Sweden, Finland and Norway’s distribution of multi-page guides on wartime preparedness.
• National defence remains focused on nuclear deterrence via Vanguard submarines armed with Trident missiles, with limited conventional defensive infrastructure in place.