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Flood map for AWE Burghfield. Shaded areas represent areas at significant risk of flooding, where the chance of flooding each year is greater than 1.3% (1 in 75).

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NEW NIS Submission to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY CONSULTATION

Global Security: Non-Proliferation

NIS argues that the risks posed by British nuclear weapons production and road transport of warheads threaten each individual citizen and our way of life. Additionally, the risk of a criticality event at the substandard warhead assembly/disassembly facilities at AWE Burghfield is also unacceptable and unjustifiable.

Read the NIS submission to the FCO.

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MOD Stops Live Nuclear Work at AWE due to preasure from NII over safety risks..
2007 Annual Report released by NIS.
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This section of the NIS website contains articles on subjects and areas that NIS has previously covered. The archive can be searched using the search form on the search page.

Remembering Hiroshima
2007-10-17 23:00
Street art in Southwold, Suffolk, Summer 2007 ... more
Short War Documentary Reviews
2007-07-23 23:00
WAR NO MORE and ANTHROPOLOGY 101. One deals with the terrible danger of escalation and the other with the actual devastation that would be caused by nuclear war. ... more
U.S. Plan for New Nuclear Weapons Advances
2006-10-24 23:00
The United States took another step yesterday toward building a new stockpile of up to 2,200 deployed nuclear weapons that would last well into the 21st century, announcing the start of a multiyear process to repair and replace facilities where they would be developed and assembled and where older warheads could be more rapidly dismantled. ... more
AWE Laser Could take on US Warhead Design and Testing
2006-09-05 23:00

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Greenham Women Made a Difference.
2006-09-03 23:00
Greenham women made a difference. The 25th anniversary of the start of Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp is being celebrated around 5th September 2006. Reminiscing about the contribution of Greenham Women and Cruisewatch to disarmament, Di McDonald gives a personal view of the power of nonviolent action to influence national, European and international nuclear weapons' policy .. ... more
New PQs on Iran and NPT
2006-03-01 00:00
A large number of parliamentary questions and answers on Iran and its nuclear treat obligations have been added to the Parliament section. Details... ... more
FAS: German Parliament To Debate US Nuclear Withdrawal
2006-02-07 00:00
A FAS news story today reports on a resolution introduced in the German Parliament last week which calls for the withdrawal of U.S. nuclear weapons from Germany. ... more