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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*14 Oct 2008 : Column 1018W*

     Trident Missiles

*Mr. Hancock:* To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answer of 29 September 2008, /Official Report,/ column 2440W, on Trident missiles, how many Trident warheads are either operationally available or undergoing maintenance. [225908]

*Mr. Hutton:* The UK has fewer than 160 operationally available Trident warheads. I am withholding further information as its release would, or would be likely to, prejudice national security