With Britain keeping its independent nuclear deterrent, its delivery system was an issue. Gaitskell wanted to keep Skybolt, but Kennedy officially cancelled the Skybolt program on 22 November 1962, because of several test flight failures. (1) In December Gaitskell went to Bahamas for negotiations with Kennedy. Though he had flu, he was well enough to make the trip. After long discussions, Kennedy's offer to sell Polaris to Britain was rejected. So there was not a Nassau agreement as there was in OTL. (2) in OTL the Labour Party wanted to renegotiate the Nassau Agreement.
(1) For Skybolt see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAM-87_Skybolt.
(2) For the Nassau agreement see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassau_Agreement.
(1) For Skybolt see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAM-87_Skybolt.
(2) For the Nassau agreement see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassau_Agreement.
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