AWE Laser Could take on US Warhead Design and Testing
Was USA Aldermaston planned in 1993? Tri Valley Cares, the anti-nuclear NGO local to Lawrence Livermore Laboratories site in California has been opposing the National Ignition Facility since 1994. Given the lead time for such projects, we can assume that the original design and plans have now been overtaken by new science.
Was a USA Aldermaston planned in 1993? Tri Valley Cares, the anti-nuclear NGO local to Lawrence Livermore Laboratories site in California has been opposing the National Ignition Facility since 1994. Given the lead time for such projects, we can assume that the original design and plans have now been overtaken by new science. Originally priced at million, the 192-beam NIF mega-laser will cost in the region of billion to build. With operating costs factored in over its projected lifetime, it could cost over billion.
Yes – the Greenham Women’s Peace Camp made a difference to the viability of basing a ground-launched nuclear weapons system in a democracy. It was a political and personal privilege to be able to make this protest.
On 23 February, the US and UK carried out a ‘sub-critical’ nuclear test at the Nevada underground testing site. The test, conducted by Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) Aldermaston, took place in a laboratory of horizontal tunnels about 290 metres underground. It was the first since May 2004, the ninth under the Bush administration, and the second carried out with Britain since a joint test in February 2002.
The US has more than 100 nuclear weapons at its Lakenheath base in Suffolk, three times the number previously thought, a respected US research agency said yesterday. The 110 tactical nuclear bombs kept at the East Anglian base – the home of American F-15 strike jets – are among as many as 480 such weapons the US still deploys in Europe, says the Natural Resources Defence Council (NRDC), a private arms control and environmental group.
Angus Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when the last transfer of nuclear material between the United States and Britain under the Mutual Defence Agreement took place; and if he will make a statement. [214246]
8 Feb 2005 : Column 1379W
Mr. Hoon: The 1958 Mutual Defence Agreement makes provision for the transfer of special nuclear materials. Such transfers are in connection with nuclear warhead assurance and stockpile stewardship matters. Precise details of such transfers are being withheld in order to safeguard national security.
2002 STRATEGY PLAN
FOR THE ATOMIC WEAPONS ESTABLISHMENT (AWE) ALDERMASTON
AWE Site Development Strategy Plan
To date, no Notice of Planning has been received by West Berkshire Council
from AWE regarding the new Strategy Plan, although a site has been cleared
for the new accommodation and conference centre. It is now 15 months since
2002 STRATEGY PLAN
FOR THE ATOMIC WEAPONS ESTABLISHMENT (AWE) ALDERMASTON
AWE Test Facilities to Comply with the CTBT
2002 STRATEGY PLAN
FOR THE ATOMIC WEAPONS ESTABLISHMENT (AWE) ALDERMASTON
Notice of Proposed Development (NoPD)
Hundreds of extra scientists are being sought to work on Britain¹s nuclear bomb programme. Their job will be to maintain Britain¹s Trident warheads, to help ensure that new weapons can be designed in the future and to conduct joint research with the US.
2002 STRATEGY PLAN
FOR THE ATOMIC WEAPONS ESTABLISHMENT (AWE) ALDERMASTON
Strategy Plan & Tritium Evaporator Notices
Trident shiplift, crewing, Franco-British Co-operation, Trident in Gibraltar and Brest. House of Commons, Written Questions 10 Jan 2000 : Column: 92W Faslane Shiplift Mr. Key: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence on how many occasions since 19 June the shiplift at Faslane has been used by (a) submarines and (b) surface ships; and if he will make a statement. [103411] Mr.
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