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WI the Brit nuke programme had progressed a bit more smoothly and quickly than IOTL? The upshot of a smoother and faster programme could be the the Grapple series of tests being started in 1956, before the Suez crisis, instead of the 1957 failures and 1958 successes. It was these 1958 tests that led to the MDA with it's close nuke cooperation between the US and Brits.

If these tests were concurrent with the Suez crisis what would the effects be? How would the opposition over Suez but desire for cooperation over nukes play out? Would the US support the Suez operation to foster the nuke cooperation, or continue opposition and not cooperate with nukes. Could Britian lever some enhanced great power status from this coincidnece?
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