The government of British Prime Minister Theresa May has been accused of hiding a “disastrous” test firing of a Trident nuclear missile, according to a report.
The Trident II D5 missile was fired from a British submarine in June of last year near the coast of the US state of Florida, The Sunday Times reported.
However, Britain’s first test of a nuclear weapon in four years went awry as the missile veered off in the wrong direction towards the American mainland, the paper added.
May, who was Home Secretary at the time of the test, decided to keep members of the Parliament in dark about the issue when she became the new premier.
The new PM at the time had made no mention of the test failure in her first major speech in July, where she tried to persuade the MPs to authorize a 40 billion pound plan for producing new Trident submarines.
On Sunday, when BBC asked May four times whether she knew about the test before she made that speech, the prime…