35Pete
March 12th, 2006, 7:22:17 AM
The British has always been brilliant technologically. Damn smart people!
It was said in WWII that the war was won with British brains, American muscle, and Russian blood.
And although I mess with ticat's head a LOT (he actually is a really good guy just fun to fight with!) the Canucks are pretty smart too. (Hmmm. English nations leading the world in technology...What's that all about? :hmm: )
Revealed: UK develops secret nuclear warhead
BRITAIN has been secretly designing a new nuclear warhead in conjunction with the Americans, provoking a legal row over the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
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. Work on a new weapon by scientists at the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston in Berkshire has been under way since Tony Blair was re-elected last May, and is now said to be ahead of similar US research.
The aim 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.
“We’ve got to build something that we can never test and be absolutely confident that, when we use it, it will work,” one senior British source said last week.
The secret programme to build a new warhead in close co-operation with the Americans will spark anger among Labour opponents of any replacement of the Trident programme, which is estimated to have cost nearly £10 billion.
Developing a new weapon would also, according to expert advice from Cherie Booth’s Matrix chambers, be a material breach of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The office of Lord Goldsmith, the attorney-general, refused to comment on whether it had been asked for legal advice by No 10.
Both Labour backbenchers and the Liberal Democrats accused the government of introducing a replacement nuclear weapon by the back door without a parliamentary debate.
...more....
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2081800,00.html
It was said in WWII that the war was won with British brains, American muscle, and Russian blood.
And although I mess with ticat's head a LOT (he actually is a really good guy just fun to fight with!) the Canucks are pretty smart too. (Hmmm. English nations leading the world in technology...What's that all about? :hmm: )
Revealed: UK develops secret nuclear warhead
BRITAIN has been secretly designing a new nuclear warhead in conjunction with the Americans, provoking a legal row over the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
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. Work on a new weapon by scientists at the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston in Berkshire has been under way since Tony Blair was re-elected last May, and is now said to be ahead of similar US research.
The aim 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.
“We’ve got to build something that we can never test and be absolutely confident that, when we use it, it will work,” one senior British source said last week.
The secret programme to build a new warhead in close co-operation with the Americans will spark anger among Labour opponents of any replacement of the Trident programme, which is estimated to have cost nearly £10 billion.
Developing a new weapon would also, according to expert advice from Cherie Booth’s Matrix chambers, be a material breach of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The office of Lord Goldsmith, the attorney-general, refused to comment on whether it had been asked for legal advice by No 10.
Both Labour backbenchers and the Liberal Democrats accused the government of introducing a replacement nuclear weapon by the back door without a parliamentary debate.
...more....
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2081800,00.html