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Ministry of Defence releases information on Successor submarine design contracts

By Nuclear Information Service Date: 8 December 2013 The Ministry of Defence has released a list of fifty contracts currently in place for the development of the new ‘Successor’ Trident replacement submarine that is intended to replace the UK’s current Vanguard class nuclear weapon submarines. The list was published by Philip Dunne, Minister for Defence Equipment, Support, and Technology, in response to a written Parliamentary Question asked by Paul Flynn MP. The list of contracts gives an insight into…

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Global report on the financing of nuclear weapons

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Each year, the nine nuclear-armed nations spend a combined total of more than US$100 billion on their nuclear forces – assembling new warheads, modernizing old ones, and building ballistic missiles, bombers and submarines to launch them. Much of this work is being carried out by private companies. How can we stop it? Don’t Bank on the Bomb is the first major global report on the financing of companies that manufacture, modernize and maintain nuclear weapons…

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Ken Loach

“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

John Hurt

".....the government has pledged to rebuild a new generation of British nuclear weapons at enormous cost and at a time when social services budgets including those for health and education are being drastically cut. Having nuclear weapons doesn't make us safer, it just brings the possibility of nuclear conflict ever closer. We need to protect this planet not put it at even more risk of destruction. We all have a voice so please use yours and join me in supporting ACTION AWE." John Hurt
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