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Dreadnought

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    …its first nuclear submarine, HMS Dreadnought, in 1963, followed a similar policy except for a brief period in the 1980s and early 1990s, when it built the Upholder class of diesel-electric submarines. Following the end of the Cold War, the Royal Navy stopped the Upholder program at four boats, eventually…

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    …its first nuclear submarine, HMS Dreadnought, in 1963, followed a similar policy except for a brief period in the 1980s and early 1990s, when it built the Upholder class of diesel-electric submarines. Following the end of the Cold War, the Royal Navy stopped the Upholder program at four boats, eventually…

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