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Command & Control, by Eric Schlosser

Command & Control, by Eric Schlosser

From famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, comes Command and Control a ground-breaking account of the management of nuclear weapons A groundbreaking account of accidents, near-misses, extraordinary heroism and technological breakthroughs, Command and Control explores the dilemma that has existed since the dawn of the nuclear age: how do you deploy weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them? Schlosser reveals that this question has never been resolved, and while…

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Nuclear scare at Navy submarine base after ‘unbelievable’ failures

Nuclear scare at Navy submarine base after ‘unbelievable’ failures

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…

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ICAN Special Edition HLM Newsletter

ICAN Special Edition HLM Newsletter

  At the first ever high-level meeting on nuclear disarmamentlast week, a resounding call for banning and eliminating nuclear weapons was made. The advocacy work by ICAN campaigners in the past weeks resulted in a growing recognition of the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons. In an effort to regain some control over the discourse, a few nuclear-armed states– the United States, France and the United Kingdom – tried to dismiss new initiatives like the Oslo conference, the…

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Radiation emergency plans (REPPIR)

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The lay person’s guide to REPPIR (Radiation Emergency Preparedness and Public Information Regulations), relating to AWE Aldermaston and Burghfield The principal radioactive materials utilised in the current design of UK nuclear warheads are Plutonium-239 (Pu-239) and highly enriched Uranium-235 (HEU-235). A single nuclear weapon produced by AWE is reckoned to contain several kilograms of Pu-239. At any time some part of the UK’s unsafeguarded stockpile of around 3.5 tonnes of weaponsgrade Pu-239 will be held on…

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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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