Councillor warns of warhead route dangers Former Renfrewshire Council leader Brian Lawson has warned of catastrophic consequences if a nuclear missile convoy is allowed to keep travelling on the M8. The SNP man is concerned about the convoys travelling over the Erskine Bridge and through Renfrewshire on their way to naval bases. The 19-vehicle convoys each carry up to six nuclear warheads, which are individually seven times as destructive as the A bomb that destroyed…
DID YOU know that nuclear warheads are regularly transported for hundreds of miles along UK roads? Police and Marines escort these military convoys between the warhead factory near Aldermaston and the Trident submarine base in Scotland. No radiation warning symbols are carried and neither the public nor local authorities are warned of these nuclear convoys. Nukewatch UK monitors these convoys with help from people like you. Nukewatch are then able to keep MP’s, journalists, local…
AWE Burghfield, a former munitions factory, occupies a 225 acre site between Aldermaston and Reading. It is responsible for the complex final assembly and maintenance of the warheads while in service, as well as their decommissioning. Unlike AWE Aldermaston with multiple entrances and exits, AWE Burghfield only has two gates. The main entrance gate is in The Mearings, off Reading Road, Burghfield. The second gate is on Burnthouse Lane. Nuclear Warhead and nuclear materials convoys…
“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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Nuclear weapons crime in the UK has been reported to Thames Valley Police.