The withdrawal of the Communists from the Indian government over the nuclear deal almost brought Manmohan Singh's government down. However, it survived that crisis by getting other minor parties on board. Now, the US Senate has agreed it . It seems that - perhaps as a counterweight against China - the US has changed its position on India's nuclear weapons and is accepting it as a 6th nuclear weapo...

Glenn Reynolds linked a report that the Secretary of Defense and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are calling for refurbishment of the existing nuclear weapons in the U.S.  Good find by Glenn.  A brief word of explanation. It has always been true that we can’t sit on the nuclear weapons stockpile without working to

Asked about the Government s response to President Obama s plan to reduce nuclear weapons, the PMS said that David Miliband had given a long speech on this today. We had been very clear for some time that we strongly supported the global commitment to a world free from nuclear weapons and creating the conditions whereby this could be achieved. Obviously that had to be worked on with many other cou...

First congratulations to India on the Launch of their Chandrayaan-1 mission to the moon which lasted off this week. But this begs the question why is the UK funding development projects in a country that chooses to put the development of Nuclear Weapons and a Space programme above other needs that we are funding ? The UK doesn't have a space launch capability, having been the only country in ...

Far from representing or effecting national pride or independence, our nuclear weapons programme has only ever represented and effected the wholesale subjugation of Britain's defence capability to a foreign power. That power maintains at least no less friendly relations with numerous other countries, almost none of which have nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons (like radiological, chemical and biolog...

Poor Gordon, if I was sure that Alex Salmond wanted to keep nuclear power off the agenda then I am double sure that the Prime Minister wants the issue of nuclear weapons away from Scottish eyes. It is just one of many topics that splits at the border, Scotland being largely anti-nucelar weapons and down south being significantly more pro-nuclear. The fact that the UK's arsenal of weapons is h...

On Tuesday night in the House of Commons, the nuclear industry moved a significant step closer to getting their hands on an extra £1.3 billion of public money, courtesy of a coalition Government that promised no subsidy for nuclear power. A Labour attempt to claw the money back through a windfall tax failed. And although

In a hush-hush deal, the British government just sold its last shares in the country's nuclear weapons plant to a U.S. company. California-based Jacobs Engineering Group paid an undisclosed amount for the government's one-third stake in the only plant in the UK that manufactures nuclear weapons, including Trident warheads. Lockheed Martin owns another third of the plant, and a British bu...

Reality is Stranger Than Fiction as Iran Plays Marketing 101 If you say it, then it must be so. This is the newest gambit being played by the Iranians, as they announce a two-day meeting to be called "Nuclear Energy For All, Nuclear Weapons For No One." The Iranian nuclear conference is scheduled to begin just days after the Global Nuclear Security Summit in Washington ends. Read the full story at...

This article of mine appears over on the Guardian's Comment Is Free site: The army has never liked Trident. It is the navy's, not theirs. The army has no nuclear weapons, and it hurts. But the generals who wrote in yesterday's Times that Britain no longer needs a nuclear deterrent are simply stating fact. Far from representing or inspiring national pride or independence, our nuclear weapons progra...