The Atomic Weapons Establishment, which makes and maintains warheads for the UK's Trident nuclear deterrent, today admitted putting employees at risk.
Failings in safety procedures led to one member of staff being injured...
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16 May 2013
16 May 2013
The United Nations' nuclear agency failed to persuade Iran on Wednesday to let it resume an investigation into suspected atomic bomb research, leaving the high-stakes diplomacy in deadlock....
16 May 2013
The Coalition government is pressing ahead with a long, expensive and controversial programme to replace the Trident nuclear weapon system beginning with the procurement of a new fleet of submarines armed with ballistic...
15 May 2013
Iran on Tuesday defended its election as the rotating chair of the world's sole multilateral disarmament forum after the United States announced that its ambassador to the U.N. Conference on Disarmament would boycott any meeting...
14 May 2013
Increasingly tough financial sanctions, an arms embargo and other international restrictions on trade with North Korea have significantly delayed expansion of Pyongyang...
13 May 2013
Relocating Britain’s nuclear missiles from Scotland in the event of the country winning independence could take “a generation,” said Malcolm Rifkind, chairman of the U.K. Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee....
11 May 2013
Japan recently refused to support an international joint statement which stressed that “It is in the interest of the very survival of humanity that nuclear weapons are never used again, under any circumstances.”
The Japanese...
10 May 2013
More than half of Scots want Britain to retain a nuclear deterrent after Trident is decommissioned, according to an opinion poll published today that undermines a key plank of Alex Salmond’s case for independence.
The survey...
10 May 2013
The United Nations’ top disarmament official this week called on NATO to look at setting a clear pathway for giving up its nuclear deterrent.
“The time may have come for NATO to consider adopting a Strategic Concept paper...
9 May 2013
The Syrian government has said it is ready for the United Nations to investigate whether chemical weapons had been used in the country’s two-year-long civil war.
The deputy foreign minister, Faisal Muqdad, indicated that...