Foo Fighter said:
Polaris subs were sent all over the place, whether or it was to threaten/strike Argentina can be speculated on but the fabrication theorists will no doubt follow their own agenda on this as all things. I do not believe Maggie T would have been so stupid as to actually launch on anything other than a proportional response and Argentina never had that high a threat.
Except the Falkland Islanders...
The Islanders hold a completely out of proportion amount of influence in British politics, even before the 1982 War. This has to be understood, to understand the reasons why Maggie T reacted the way she did to the Argentine invasion.
When have we launched nuclear weapons unilaterally, without NATO involvement? Can you demonstrate a scenario where the UK would launch unilaterally? A realistic scenario? The UK will never launch an independent strike, it just will never happen.
Whether or not she actually would have launched is immaterial. The point is that she could have launched, as the Prime Minister of the UK, if the missiles were British owned on a British owned submarine. They were British and therefore under the control of the British government ultimately. London can and has acted unilaterally in the past, where British interests have been threatened. :