10:50 10 February 2014 by Stuart Parkinson Weapons of mass destruction get five times as much public research cash in the UK as renewable energy. Time for a rethink, says Stuart Parkinson The scale of a nation’s public spending on different areas of research and development can be very revealing. For example, what sort of a nation would spend five times as much on developing weapons of mass destruction – including delivery systems – than on…
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…
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…
The Ministry of Defence has pledged at least £2 billion of spending on new developments at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), according to new information released in response to a Parliamentary Question from Caroline Lucas MP. The answer, which exposes the true scale of development at AWE, gives a breakdown of the costs for a number of new-build projects which are intended to keep the current Trident warhead in service and, if a future…
“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
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TRIDENT ON TRIAL
Nuclear weapons crime in the UK has been reported to Thames Valley Police.