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Double defects left vessels without vital sources of coolant for their reactors, despite earlier warnings and incidents SAM MASTERS SUNDAY 6th OCTOBER 2013 A major nuclear incident was narrowly averted at the heart of Britain’s Royal Navy submarine fleet, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. The failure of both the primary and secondary power sources of coolant for nuclear reactors at the Devonport dockyard in Plymouth on 29 July last year followed warnings in previous years of…
No nation should own nuclear arms – not Iran, not North Korea, and not their critics who take the moral high ground Desmond Tutu guardian.co.uk, Monday 4 March 2013 We cannot intimidate others into behaving well when we ourselves are misbehaving. Yet that is precisely what nations armed with nuclear weapons hope to do by censuring North Korea for its nuclear tests and sounding alarm bells over Iran’s pursuit of enriched uranium. According to their logic, a select…
Britain set to triple spending on nuclear weapons program Nargess Moballeghi, Press TV, London Thu Feb 28, 2013 A just released report has concluded that in the next decade, Britain’s Trident nuclear weapons programme will cost the country over a third of its military’s equipment budget. According to experts, the current cost is about ten percent. Paul Ingram from the British American Security Information Council, or BASIC, says that even this three-fold spike could…
From the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty, to which the UK is a signatory - the very first article of the treaty….. NPT Article I: Each nuclear-weapon State Party to the Treaty undertakes not to transfer to any recipient whatsoever nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices or control over such weapons or explosive devices directly, or indirectly; and not in any way to assist, encourage, or induce any non-nuclear-weapon State to manufacture or otherwise acquire…
Below is the text, as prepared, of a speech given by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the Monterey Institute of International Studies on January 18, 2013. “ADVANCING THE DISARMAMENT AND NON-PROLIFERATION AGENDA: SEEKING PEACE IN AN OVER-ARMED WORLD” President Sunder Ramaswamy, Dr. William Potter, Excellencies, Distinguished guests, Ladies and gentlemen, It is a pleasure to be at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. I thank President Sunder Ramaswamy for hosting. I also want to recognize Dr. William Potter, Director of the…
Trident costs billions and what is it for? If Trident is replaced it will cost over £100 billion to build and run. Britain doesn’t need nuclear weapons. They can’t actually be used. They don’t defend us or deter wars or terrorist attacks. If the government launched the 40-48 nuclear weapons carried on one Trident submarine it would incinerate millions of people. Even the use of one Trident warhead would violate international law and make our…
Replacing Trident will commit us to having nuclear weapons for 50 more years despite these important facts: The enormous cost • It will cost us at least £100 billion to procure and then maintain a new nuclear weapons system. • The current system already costs us at least £2 billion every year just to keep running. The majority of people are against nuclear weapons • Poll after poll show that the majority of British people are…
“Spending £100 billion on replacing Trident is a catastrophic folly. I’m sure I am one of many who support the those, like Action-AWE, who campaign actively and imaginatively against it”
– Ken Loach
WORLD IN CHAIINS
TRIDENT ON TRIAL
Nuclear weapons crime in the UK has been reported to Thames Valley Police.
