Entering office as Britain’s new prime minister on Wednesday, Boris Johnson will write the toughest letter of his life: providing orders of last resort to Britain’s nuclear ballistic missile submarine commanders.

Those letters provide orders to Britain’s four Vanguard-class submarine commanders on how to proceed if the British government is decapitated in a nuclear strike.

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