Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)


2000 United Kingdom Special Weapons News



  • Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Foreign Affairs - Minutes of Evidence -- 28 June 2000 -- In the matter of the National Missile Defence (NMD), which the US is now discussing, we shall have to take key decisions on our own in respect of the US requests.
  • REDUNDANT NUCLEAR SUBMARINES TO BE SAFELY STORED ON LAND Ministry of Defence 086/00 May 11, 2000 New proposals for the safe storage on land of the Royal Navy's decommissioned nuclear-powered submarines were announced today by Defence Minister Dr Lewis Moonie.
  • FURTHER STEPS IN NUCLEAR OPENNESS 071/00 14 April 2000 The Ministry of Defence has taken another step in nuclear openness today with the publication of two reports. The first report is on an historical review of UK plutonium production and the second is on arms control verification.
  • Historical accounting and plutonium A SUMMARY REPORT BY THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE ON THE ROLE OF HISTORICAL ACCOUNTING FOR FISSILE MATERIAL IN THE NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT PROCESS, AND ON PLUTONIUM FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM'S DEFENCE NUCLEAR PROGRAMME
  • Plutonium and Aldermaston - an historical account
  • Confidence, Security and Verification: The challenge of global nuclear weapons arms control 13 April 2000 - AWE/TR/2000/001 prepared for the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence - This paper presents initial AWE work directed at providing Her Majesty's Government with a national capability to contribute to the verification challenge resulting from any future global nuclear weapons arms control negotiations.
  • Nuclear verification A SUMMARY REPORT BY THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE ON THE STUDY CONDUCTED BY THE ATOMIC WEAPONS ESTABLISHMENT ALDERMASTON INTO THE UNITED KINGDOM'S CAPABILITIES TO VERIFY THE REDUCTION AND ELIMINATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
  • ATOMIC WEAPONS ESTABLISHMENT REVIEW COMPLETE Ministry of Defence 052/00 29 March, 2000 The Ministry of Defence today confirmed that the AWE ML consortium will take over management of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) on 1 April 2000.
 

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