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Terrifying incidents included a lorry toppling over while carrying nuclear warheads. Britain has risked nuclear disaster on more than 100 occasions over the past 65 years including the collision of a Royal Navy and French submarine in the Atlantic                   While the Royal Navy ship on which Prince Andrew operated from during the Falklands War accidentally carried nukes to the South Atlantic.

Andrew’s ship HMS Invincible carried ten nukes while fellow aircraft carrier HMS Hermes had 16.

The revelation is all the more terrifying given that six Royal Navy vessels were sunk with French-supplied Exocet missiles during the conflict with Argentina.

The MoD has previously disclosed only 27 “major incidents” – although the true number is 110, a dossier seen by The Mail reveals.

Nukes are also believed to have rolled from a lorry into a roadside ditch after it toppled over on an icy Wiltshire road in 1987.

Among the other incidents was a collision between a Royal Navy and French submarine in the Atlantic eight years ago.

The report also said 116 UK citizens had died as a result of cancer or accidents arising from working with nuclear weapons.

Britain’s nuclear weapons were first tested in 1952 after the development programme began in 1940…….

The Royal Navy faced serious questions last month when a bungled test sent a dummy nuclear missile hurtling towards the US