Proliferation in Parliament

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Welcome to Proliferation in Parliament, a selection of questions and debates on nuclear and missile defence issues from Parliament.

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Summer 2010

• Introduction
• Trident and the General Election
• Coalition negotiations to form a new government
• Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR)
• Trident Replacement: costs, alternatives and dates
• UK nuclear weapons: Current Operation
• Britain’s International Obligations, the NPT and other international treatie
• Proliferation Challenges

Summer 2009

• Cross party support for a review of Trident replacement gathers momentum
• Calls for Initial Gate to be delayed
• The Road to 2010 (but don't mention the 'T' word)
• A less than Strategic Defence Review
• NATO-Russia Relations and Missile Defence
• NATO Nuclear Policy and the Strategic Concept
• Government confirms Radioactive Releases from Faslane
• Hot air balloons infringe security at Aldermaston
• Sellafield MP calls for two new reactors
• A breach of export controls?

Spring 2009

• Prospects for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference 2010
• Cabinet Reshuffle
• Lifting the nuclear shadow
• Meanwhile, over in Barrow-in-Furness...
• Continuing At Sea Deterrence
• Conservatives Question Trident
• Economic Costs
• Warhead Co-operation with the US
• Environmental Costs and Risks
• Towards 2010
• Missile Defence - the questions continue
• And finally

Winter 2008 - 2009

• Letter from retired military leaders
• Lifting the Nuclear Shadow launch
• Secretary of State for Defence speech on NATO
• Queen's Speech Debates
• Foreign Affairs Committee Global Security: Non-Proliferation Inquiry
• Public Accounts Committee Hearing on Trident
• Trident News
• Nuclear Security Project Early Day Motion (EDM)

March - July 2008

• Start worrying and learn to ditch the bomb, Letter to The Times by Douglas Hurd, Malcolm Rifkind, David Owen and George Robertson, 30 June 2008
• Britain's new nuclear abolitionists, by Rebecca Johnson, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 15 July 2008
• UK Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague speech on Nuclear Non-Proliferation, 23 July 2008
• Trident and Nuclear Submarines
• Atomic Weapons Establishments and Nuclear Transport
• Nuclear Facilities and Security
• NATO and Nuclear Weapons
• Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
• British Policy on Iran's nuclear programme
• Missile Defence
• National Security Strategy
• Chemical and Biological Weapons
• Scottish Parliament

December 2007 - March 2008

• President Sarkozy speech
• Missile Defence
• The NPT and Non-Proliferation
• Trident and the UK Nuclear Programme
• UK Nuclear Infrastructure
• US Bases
• Space Weapons
• Defence Policy
• UK Policy on Iran
• European Parliament

September - November 2007

• Queen's Speech and Debates
• Trident and UK Nuclear Programme
• Missile Defence
• Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
• UK Policy on Iran
• Nuclear Testing
• Galileo
• Scottish Parliament
• European Parliament

July - August 2007

• Trident and UK Nuclear Programme
• Comprehensive Spending Review and Defence Spending
• NATO and Nuclear Weapons
• Missile Defence
• Galileo
• Nuclear Non-Proliferation (including NPT debate)
• Iran
• North Korea
• Israel
• Nuclear Test Veterans
• Depleted Uranium

June 2007

• Prime Minister Gordon Brown's new cabinet
• UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Margaret Beckett on a World Free of Nuclear Weapons, June 25, 2007
• Scottish Parliament votes to oppose Trident
• Scottish Parliament Motion for Scotland to have observer status at the 2010 NPT RevCon
• Defence Committee Chair James Arbuthnot accuses the MoD of 'misrepresenting' the Committee's report on Trident
• Written Questions concerning the Government's legal assessment of Trident replacement
• Questions on Missile Defence and Putin's comments on Nuclear Targeting

May 2007

• MPs continue to raise questions about Trident replacement
• MPs and Lords ask questions on the NPT, fissban, and nuclear disarmament
• Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett on Iran
• Missile Defence featured in Defence Oral Questions
• Calls to extend the Inquiry into the Nuclear Industry Postmortems scandal

UK Parliament Debates Trident, March 14, 2007

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