7 July 2008 : Column 1154W, USA Nuclear Weapons
Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many US nuclear weapons are maintained at /(a)/ RAF Lakenheath, /(b)/ other UK mainland bases and /(c)/ UK bases overseas; and if he will make a statement. [215792]
If the information that 110 US tactical nuclear 'freefall' bombs have been removed from Lakenheath is confirmed, the risk of a nuclear air or ground accident involving US nuclear weapons in the UK will have gone, making East Anglia a safer place.
Bethesda's USEC Argues to Impose Anti-Dumping Duties on French Firm implications not only for the energy industry but also for efforts to dismantle some nuclear weapons.
By Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 20, 2006; Page A11
The United States took another step yesterday toward building a new stockpile of up to 2,200 deployed nuclear weapons that would last well into the 21st century, announcing the start of a multiyear process to repair and replace facilities where they would be developed and assembled and where older warheads could be more rapidly dismantled.
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.
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.
US nuclear weapons scientists are designing a warhead that is meant to be 'reliable' without ever having been tested. Geoff Brumfiel, Nature's physical sciences correspondent, asks whether it could renew the United States' ageing stockpile.
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.
A resolution introduced in the German Parliament last week calls for the withdrawal of U.S. nuclear weapons from Germany. The resolution, which was submitted by nine parliamentarians from the newly formed party Die Linke, also calls for the German Air Force to end its controversial NATO mission to deliver U.S. nuclear bombs in times of war.
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.
