2013 This report examines the “damage criteria” used by the MOD in planning the UK’s nuclear weapons programme and more recent replacements, and how a desire for particular weapons systems has reshaped the amount of damage considered acceptable. By John Ainslie Download if the embedded viewer has a problem
Unacceptable Damage
If Britain Fired Trident
2013 A study of the humanitarian consequences of a nuclear attack by one Trident submarine on likely primary targets in and around Moscow. By John Ainslie Download if the embedded viewer has a problem
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Times, ‘Who will see off the Spetsnaz.’
18 September 1985.
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New Statesman, ‘Zircon Why MPs didn’t want to know.’
11 December 1987.
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Daily Express, Ian Mather, ‘Dad’s Army set to stamp out Kremlin’s moles.’
08 September 1985.
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Observer, ‘Reagan’s men raid Russia.’
30 August 1987.
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John Ainslie notes, Boris Yeltsin Baltic states, targets for Trident
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Daily Mirror, Mark Dowdney, The Great Nuclear Escape
25 March 1994
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Daily Record, A necessary nuclear evil
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Daily Record, Gary Jones, US hears sounds of sub breaking apart
18 August 2000
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Pravda, ‘The Pentagon is developing a new weapon to obtain absolute predominance.’
30 May 2006.
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Neptune papers, Nuclear warships and naval nuclear weapons, William Arkin
May 1988
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