The immediately concern appeared to be contaminated milk. ibid.
For Macmillan the fire at Windscale was a major embarrassment. ibid.
‘Error of judgement’. ibid.
Britain’s present nuclear deterrent policy threatens a would-be aggressor with devastation from thermonuclear bombs to be delivered by Victor and Vulcan mark-II aircraft of the British V-bomber force. The War Game, 1965
In 1959 a Home Office manual wrote: ‘Public education in the matters of radioactivity will be progressive during the next few years.’ ibid. caption
The warning time could be less than thirty seconds. ibid.
[Abdul] Khan and his network were known, identified, surveilled, funded and even protected by the CIA from its very inception. In 1974 Abdul Qadeer Khan offered his services to the Pakistani government to help them develop a nuclear bomb. The Corbett Report, How the CIA Runs the Nuclear Black Market, James Corbett online 2017
CIA operatives managed to come up with a complete set of floor plans for an ambitious Pakistani uranium-enrichment at Kuhuma. ibid.
When President Trump announced that the US was going to de-certify the Joint Comprehensive Join Plan of Action, better known as the 2015 Iran Nuclear deal, and reinstitute sanctions on the country, one of the reasons he cited for that move was the presentation of ‘new’ evidence from Israeli Intelligence showing that the Iranians had lied about their nuclear programme during the negotiation of that deal. The Corbett Report: The REAL Middle East Nuclear Threat, James Corbett online 2018
There is in fact a Middle Eastern nation that is in fact in control of a vast undeclared stockpile of nuclear weapons. This nation does have the capability of deploying those weapons anywhere in the region. It is not a signatory … It’s Israel. This is the story of the real Middle East nuclear threat. ibid.
There are enough nuclear weapons on Earth to wipe out the human race. We have already stood on the very brink of Armageddon. The race for nuclear supremacy has fuelled a world of conspiracy, deceit and espionage. It is a race in which spies risked their lives to betray their country, their friends and their family. And at its heart lies the world’s best-kept secrets. Nuclear Secrets I: The Spy from Moscow, BBC 2007
His [Penkovsky] offer to spy for the West reached Washington but the CIA failed to make contact. ibid.
Penkovsky made an astonishing claim that turned Cold War perceptions on their head: the Soviets were way behind in the nuclear race, but Khrushchev was planning an all-out nuclear attack. ibid.
Penkovsky was going back behind the Iron Curtain as the Cold War intensified still further. ibid.
In May 1963 Penkovsky & Wynn were tried in Moscow. The KGB had arrested Wynn in Hungary – sentenced to eight years, he was released within eighteen months in a spy exchange. Oleg Penkovsky received the sentence of a common traitor. ibid.
1945: America prepares to unleash the most destructive weapon ever seen. It’s the dawn of the nuclear age … a weapon of mass murder created by men of genius – but one is a communist spy: Dr K Fuchs. Nuclear Secrets II: Superspy
Fuchs was against any country having a monopoly on the bomb. ibid.
The Soviets were progressing fast building four secret nuclear cities to service the bomb project. ibid.
In six London meetings Fuchs passed on ninety documents of nuclear secrets. ibid.
There are enough hydrogen bombs on Earth to destroy every human being. But sixty years ago there was no such thing. And one man was determined to keep it that way. Robert Oppenheimer claimed he was defending the human race. His enemies believed he should be crushed for betraying America. Was the world heading for Armageddon? Nuclear Secrets III: Superbomb
‘As of today we are living in the age of the superbomb.’ ibid. Oppenheimer
[Andrei] Sakharov had seen all of Fuch’s information but he wanted to go his own way. ibid.
A three-mile-wide fireball recreated every element the universe had ever seen. It was equivalent to a thousand Hiroshimas. Five thousand miles away Teller watched the birth of his bomb. ibid.
The Soviet H-bomb had arrived several years earlier than the CIA had predicted fuelling suspicions there were still spies at large in America. ibid.
[Lewis] Strauss ordered the FBI to seize all Oppenheimer’s classified files. ibid.
The world’s worst nightmare: a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. But hidden in the desert is an atom bomb factory the West helped build and it belongs to Israel. One man exposes an international conspiracy of silence. He’s up against one of the most feared secret services in the world. And they won’t stop till they’ve got him. Nuclear Secrets IV: Vanunu and the Bomb
He risked a heavy prison sentence to take photos of what he’d seen. ibid.
Mossad would be coming after him. Ibid
‘Israel could have up to 200 atom bombs.’ ibid. UK expert
There was a long list of Western countries who would be very embarrassed if Vanunu’s story ever got out. ibid.
The next day Israel denied the allegations. ibid.
The Sunday Mirror printed pictures of Vanunu and ridiculed his story. ibid.
The Sunday Times finally decided on publish on October 5th. ibid.
Curiously, the world’s press didn’t want to know. ibid.
For eleven years Vanunu was in solitary confinement. ibid.
Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, brilliant scientist, trusted colleague, nuclear spy. Khan’s masterplan: to steal Europe’s nuclear secrets, build an atomic bomb for Pakistan, and set up a smuggling network to sell those secrets on to Middle Eastern states from Libya to Iran. A nuclear network reaching as far as North Korea. Nuclear Secrets V: The Terror Trader
The mastermind behind the biggest global nuclear smuggling ring. ibid.
He got a job at Europe’s largest civilian atomic research consortium. ibid.
Khan flew to Pakistan Christmas 1975. ibid.
With contacts all over Europe Khan’s bomb project rapidly accelerated. ibid.
‘The Chinese provided invaluable assistance to Pakistan’s nuclear efforts.’ ibid.
At a chicken farm in the Iraqi desert they uncovered a treasure trove of documents … The Iraqi secret service received an offer from Khan’s network. ibid.
1998: Pakistan exploded its first bomb in response to Indian nuclear tests of the same month. ibid.
The cheque cleared: Khan had helped Iran on the road to nuclear power. ibid.
Why can’t we use nuclear weapons? Donald Trump, cited MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough
The only way to reduce the number of nuclear weapons is to use them. Rush Limbaugh
In November 1957 Britain exploded its first mega-ton hydrogen bomb, over one hundred times more powerful than the one dropped over Hiroshima. This is the story of an extraordinary scientific project which against almost insuperable odds made Britain a nuclear superpower. Britain’s Nuclear Bomb: The Inside Story, BBC 2017
‘A bomb came loose whilst the aircraft was flying over Dorking.’ ibid. scientist
All I’m asking you to do is to delay the inquiry until we get back from Blackpool. Edge of Darkness I II III IV V VI, Trade Union official to Ron, BBC 1985
The whole world’s falling round your ears and you don’t even care. ibid. daughter to Ron in jam-jar
That was Whitehall showing an interest. ibid. chief constable
Did Emma have a boyfriend? He’s a political agitator apparently. ibid. rozzer to Ron
The nuclear deterrent is there to deter all war and it has. ibid. Thatcher on TV
We’re attached to the prime minister’s office … Your daughter: she was some sort of terrorist, wasn’t she? According to her file … Were they after her or were they after you? ibid. Pendleton in jam-jar
We found the car. Got Lowe’s prints all over it … You put him away ten years ago, remember? ibid. rozzer to Ron
How deeply was she involved in GIAI? ibid. Ron to Emma’s boyfriend