Flood map for AWE Burghfield. Shaded areas represent areas at significant risk of flooding, where the chance of flooding each year is greater than 1.3% (1 in 75).
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NEW NIS Submission to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY CONSULTATION
Global Security: Non-Proliferation

NIS argues that the risks posed by British nuclear weapons production and road transport of warheads threaten each individual citizen and our way of life. Additionally, the risk of a criticality event at the substandard warhead assembly/disassembly facilities at AWE Burghfield is also unacceptable and unjustifiable.

Read the NIS submission to the FCO.

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There is a hidden bonus of over £2bn to US corporations if the government goes ahead with building new nuclear warheads http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/25/nuclear.weaponstechnology

American firm Lockheed Martin has a large share in the management and ownership of the UK's nuclear weapons factories at Aldermaston.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/25/nuclear.armstrade

This article in Comment is Free is on the Guardian home page