Stop new warhead lab at AWE Aldermaston The Atomic Weapons Establishment is seeking planning permission for a new Hydrodynamics Research facility at Aldermaston which will study the behaviour of materials within the warhead. The facility will recreate the extreme conditions within a nuclear explosion without causing a detonation. The government Continue Reading

From a comment left on the "Spending challenge" hm-treasury.gov.uk comments area….. "Nuclear weapons currently cost the UK taxpayer over £2bn a year, yet are designed to combat a threat that ended with the Cold War two decades ago. The Government is now in the design stage for a new generation Continue Reading