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…
Castle Bravo was the code name given to the first United States test of a dry fuel, hydrogen bomb, detonated on March 1, 1954, at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, as the first test of Operation Castle. Castle Bravo was the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the United States (and just under one-third the energy of the most powerful ever detonated), with a yield of 15 megatons of TNT. That yield, far exceeding the expected yield of 4 to 8 megatons (6 Mt predicted), combined with other factors,…
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…
Harvey Wasserman | February 2, 2014 [This is the first in a two part series] Fukushima’s missing melted cores and radioactive gushers continue to fester in secret. Japan’s harsh dictatorial censorship has been matched by a global corporate media blackout aimed—successfully—at keeping Fukushima out of the public eye. But that doesn’t keep the actual radiation out of our ecosystem, our markets … or our bodies. Speculation on the ultimate impact ranges from the utterly harmless to the intensely apocalyptic .…
Action AWE mourns the passing of our friend and fellow campaigner Roger Lloyd Pack. These photos show him opposing Trident replacement at Faslane in 2007 with other actors, musicians and writers. Not just a brilliant actor, but a lovely man and committed campaigner for peace, who will be greatly missed.
FEARS have been raised over the safety of the nation’s nuclear arms cache after seven police officers attached to AWE Burghfield resigned amid reports of widespread security lapses. Campaigners fear the Trident missile factory could be vulnerable to terrorist attacks following allegations that Ministry of Defence officers were skipping routine security patrols, with up to 50 allegedly being probed for failing to fulfil basic checks. Most officers patrolling the site, which is often at the…
Take your pick of the reasons. The eye-watering cost? Risk of nuclear accidents? Breeches of International Laws? Radioactive pollution from the production sites? The sheer immorality? The list goes on…… Currently there is a rare window-of-opportunity on this issue. As CND Vice-President, Rebecca Johnson, currently touring the UK with her “New Ban the Bomb” show says: “We’ve campaigned for many decades and are now at a tipping point when we could ban and abolish nuclear…
MoD calls in IPCC over accusations of failures at AWE site at Burghfield As many as 50 officers are involved in the inquiry, and seven have resigned Burghfield factory makes the warheads for Trident ballistic missiles By DAMIEN GAYLE The MoD has reported the allegations to the Independent Police Complaints Commission. It added that seven officers have resigned without facing disciplinary charges. A source told the Daily Mirror: ‘At least some of the police were…
By Nuclear Information Service Date: 1 December 2013 A scathing report by the government’s health and safety watchdog into a fire which broke out at Britain’s nuclear weapons factory has concluded that it was fortunate that the incident did not lead to “numerous fatalities.” The report prepared by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) following an investigation into the fire, which broke out at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) Aldermaston in August 2010, exposes a wide range…
Briefing and leaflets for this event now available at the bottom of this page - to read, download or print in Pdf Saturday 8th February 2014 at noon. Crimestoppers! You have a right to report a crime. It is a crime to threaten mass murder. It is a crime to prepare for mass murder. Trident is the crime. Reporting the Crime. We will gather outside Reading Police Station, Castle Street, Reading, RG1 7TH, at noon…
“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.