Oliver Tickell 26th August 2014 On the face of it, the UK government’s obsession with nuclear power defies reason. It’s very expensive, inflexible, creates ‘existential’ threats and imposes enormous ‘long tail’ liabilities tens of thousands of years into the future. But there is a simple explanation: it’s all to maintain the UK’s status as a nuclear WMD state. “The UK’s civil nuclear programme is almost entirely motivated by the UK’s wish to maintain its…











Nuclear weapons crime in the UK has been reported to Thames Valley Police.










