The Polaris Sales Agreement was a treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom which began the UK Polaris programme. The agreement was signed on 6 April 1963. It formally arranged the terms and conditions under which the Polaris missile system was provided to the United Kingdom.
British Polaris missile on display at the Imperial War Museum in London
The Director of the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Wernher von Braun, rides in the back of a motorized cart with the Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence of Great Britain, Sir Solly Zuckerman, in the front passenger seat.
President John F. Kennedy meets with the British Ambassador to the United States, Sir David Ormsby-Gore, in the Oval Office.
A Polaris missile is fired from the submerged British nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine HMS Revenge on 9 June 1983.
Polaris (UK nuclear programme)
The United Kingdom's Polaris programme, officially named the British Naval Ballistic Missile System, provided its first submarine-based nuclear weapons system. Polaris was in service from 1968 to 1996.
A Polaris missile is fired from the submerged ballistic missile submarine HMS Revenge
Admiral Arleigh Burke, the US Navy's Chief of Naval Operations from 1955 to 1961
Admiral of the Fleet Lord Mountbatten, the First Sea Lord from 1955 to 1959, and the Chief of the Defence Staff from 1959 to 1965
President John F. Kennedy (left) meets with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Harold Macmillan (right), at Government House in Hamilton, Bermuda, on 22 December 1961.
