Nuclear weapons
Trident damned as ‘deadly farce’ after costs rise £1bn
The cost of UK programmes to replace Trident and nuclear submarines on the Clyde increased by over £1 billion in a year, according to data released by the Ministry of Defence.
Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Nuclear weapons, Arms trade
Ministry of Defence wasted £9m on ‘fruitless payments’
Nuclear weapons, Human rights
Ministry of Defence gags staff on Trident and Scotland
Environment, Health
5,000 sites escape pollution checks due to coronavirus crisis
Nuclear weapons
Faslane to dump up to 50 times more radioactive waste in the Clyde
Nuclear weapons
Trident commanders ‘not legally responsible’ for nuclear attack
Trident submarine commanders unleashing a nuclear attack cannot be held responsible under law for their actions, according to the Ministry of Defence's former nuclear policy chief.
Nuclear weapons
Ministry of Defence under fire for hiding reports on nuclear safety problems
The UK government’s nuclear safety watchdog has criticised the Ministry of Defence for hiding efforts to ensure the safety of Britain’s nuclear bomb programme under a cloak of secrecy.
Nuclear weapons
New nuclear submarines delayed by technical problems
Nuclear weapons
Safety risks exposed by nuclear bomb convoy exercise in Scotland
An emergency exercise imagining an explosion spreading radioactive contamination from a nuclear bomb convoy crash in East Lothian was hampered by communication breakdowns that would have put people at risk.