British military aircraft regularly carry highly radioactive material across the Atlantic to one of the RAF’s largest bases on flights vital to the Trident nuclear weapons system, according to new research, Declassified UK can reveal.
The little-known flights are a lifeline sustaining the ‘special relationship’ embodied in the secretive US-UK Mutual Defence Agreement due to be renewed later this year without the need for any parliamentary scrutiny or even approval.
At least ten of the special round trips between RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire and US military bases, usually by large RAF C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft, take place every year, according to Nukewatch, which monitors traffic in nuclear weapons and their components.
In a joint report with Nukewatch, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) told Declassified: “The UK cannot claim to have an independent nuclear weapons system when it is so reliant on the US for technical information and nuclear materials, including these special nuclear flights.
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Bromley Peace campaigners gathered in Bromley Market Square on Friday 26/4/19 to mark the 33rd anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The disaster took place in 1986 and was covered up by the then Soviet authorities. The explosion at the nuclear power plant released a radioactive cloud that drifted across Europe reaching the UK a week later. 70% of the radioactive materials fell over farmlands, forests, towns and villages in Belarus. The children of Belarus are since then and to date continuing to pay the heavy price of this disaster with their health and well being. There is a huge increase in childhood cancers, thyroid disorders and birth defects even today. Innocent people paid the heavy price of Chernobyl 1986 and Fukushima 2011 disasters let alone livestock, pets and the enduring damage to the environment that will last thousands of years. Ann Garrett the Secretary of Bromley Borough CND said “ These are alarm bells we should not ignore when our government is
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