Editing No first use (section)

===United Kingdom===
In March 2002, the [[Secretary of State for Defence]] [[Geoff Hoon]] stated that the UK was prepared to use [[Nuclear weapons of the United Kingdom|nuclear weapons]] against "[[rogue state]]s" such as [[Ba'athist Iraq]] if they ever used "weapons of mass destruction" against [[British Armed Forces]] troops in the field.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1883258.stm |work=BBC News |title=UK 'prepared to use nuclear weapons' |access-date=2007-09-14 |date= 20 March 2002<!--, 14:49 GMT--> |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20021020052015/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1883258.stm |archive-date = 2002-10-20}}</ref> This policy was restated in February 2003 and again under the [[Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Defence]]'s [[Strategic Defence and Security Review 2010]].<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/2717939.stm |date= 2 February 2003<!--, 19:25 GMT -->|work=BBC News |title=UK restates nuclear threat |access-date=2007-09-14}}</ref> In April 2017 Defence Secretary [[Michael Fallon]] confirmed that the UK would use nuclear weapons in a "[[Pre-emptive nuclear strike|pre-emptive initial strike]]" in "the most extreme circumstances".<ref name=independent-20170424>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-nuclear-weapons-first-strike-michael-fallon-general-election-jeremy-corbyn-trident-a7698621.html |title=Theresa May would fire UK's nuclear weapons as a 'first strike', says Defence Secretary Michael Fallon |first=Rob |last=Merrick |newspaper=The Independent |date=24 April 2017 |access-date=24 April 2017 |archive-date=25 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170425031826/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-nuclear-weapons-first-strike-michael-fallon-general-election-jeremy-corbyn-trident-a7698621.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Fallon stated in a parliamentary answer that the UK has neither a 'first use' or 'no first use' in its nuclear weapon policy so that its adversaries would not know when the UK would launch nuclear strikes.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-09-05/8502/ |title=Nuclear Weapons:Written question – 8502  |first=Michael |last=Fallon |publisher=UK Parliament |date=5 September 2017 |access-date=18 November 2018}}</ref>