‘UK designs secret nuclear warhead’

mkpdavies · 13-03-2006, 11:47 PM

http://indiamonitor.com/news/readNews.jsp?ni=10924

Quote:

Monday, March 13, 2006, London: Britain has been secretly designing a new nuclear warhead in conjunction with the United States, provoking a legal row over the proliferation of nuclear weapons, a media report claimed here on Sunday. The government has been pushing ahead with the programme while claiming that no decision has been made on a successor to Britain’s Trident nuclear deterrent, the Sunday Times reported.
Work on a new weapon by scientists at the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston in Berkshire has been under way since Prime Minister Tony Blair was re-elected as Prime Minister in last May, and is now said to be ahead of a similar US research, the report claimed.

The aim, according to the report, is to produce a simpler device using proven components to avoid breaching the ban on nuclear testing. Known as the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW), it is being designed so that it can be tested in a laboratory rather than by detonation, the paper said.

It's O.K for us to proliferate nukes though, because we are special. Why can't the world just accept this?

Colin McNamee · 14-03-2006, 03:07 PM

Wait 'til Chirac gets to hear about it. Toys 'n pram won't be in it

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14-03-2006, 03:07 PM	#2 (permalink)
Colin McNamee Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Somerset Posts: 894	Wait 'til Chirac gets to hear about it. Toys 'n pram won't be in it