Did you know that six of them broke into the nuclear waste plant at Northmoor eight weeks ago and they were led by your daughter? … Her body was subject to massive doses of radiation. ibid. Harcourt
Suspicion pointed to a secret plutonium source hidden in Northmoor Nuclear Waste Plant … ibid. secret report
Your daughter was a terrorist, Craven. You may as well get used to it. ibid. Darius
I’ve been waiting for you. ibid. Ron to gunman
We’re closing the case, Ronnie. ibid. rozzer
Nobody dances like the British. They deserve the Falklands. ibid. Darius
You know damn well who they are, Ronnie. ibid. union bloke
Why was plutonium being stored in Northmoor? Who were these terrorists? And why, why were the AEA not notified of this incident? ibid. energy subcommittee
Get me Pendleton! ibid. Ron
They found the hot cell. It had been sealed off. ibid. Pendleton
This future nuclear state will be an absolute state. ibid. Darius’ lecture
Get it while it’s hot! ibid. Darius on stage with Plutonium
They didn’t just betray you, they made a fool of you. ibid. Ron to Darius
I am not on your side! ibid. Ron
We’ve got to get rid of that plutonium oxide in Hull … Storing nuclear waste was going to be a growth industry, you said. The New Statesman a1e4: Waste Not, Want Not, ITV 1987
Which country in the Middle East has undeclared nuclear weapons? Which country in the Middle East has undeclared biological and chemical capabilities? Which country in the Middle East has no outside inspections? Which country jailed its nuclear whistleblower for 18 years? Israel’s Secret Weapon ***** BBC 2003
Mordechai Vanunu jailed as a traitor: he spent 11 years in solitary confinement. ibid.
Vanunu moved to Israel as a child with his family from Morocco. He served in the Israeli army. ibid.
Today his are still the only photographs ever seen of the inside of Israel’s nuclear bomb factory. ibid.
It took weeks for the Sunday Times to go to press with their scoop. When they finally did on October 5th 1986 Vanunu had vanished. ibid.
He’d met an American woman in Leicester Square who seemed to like him; he was vulnerable and afraid … He fell for it; it was a classic honey trap. Once in Rome the full wait of Israel’s wroth kicked in. ibid.
Israel has the world’s sixth largest nuclear arsenal. ibid.
Vanunu is the ultimate conscientious objector. ibid.
Evidence has seeped out of accidents, lies and deceit. ibid.
More than 100 Dimona workers who had developed cancer and whose claims were being ignored. ibid.
In the most famous anti-nuclear protest ever seen in Britain, thousands of women spent much of the 1980s and beyond protesting against the presence of American cruise missiles here at Greenham Common. What even they didn’t know along with the residents of nearby Newbury was that the British government’s own scientists had warned that this was the riskiest of eleven possible sites to put the weapons. Document: The Ghosts of Greenham, BBC Radio 4 2007
London would be very unlikely to escape such a disaster. ibid.
‘Covert plans to launch a military strike if necessary against Pakistan’s nuclear facilities’ [New York Times] could have been written today. Yet that article in the New York Times was published nearly thirty years ago. In August 1979 Washington was every bit as worried as it is now about events unfolding in Pakistan. Such a military strike may well have been viewed as an act of war; so what pushed President Jimmy Carter’s government to even consider such a drastic option? Document: Stop Pakistan, BBC Radio 4 2008
An intriguing document. Headed Top Secret it stated 27th November 1975 and refers to the plan to upgrade the UK’s nuclear weapons … Vital information would be kept from the very man who was to pay for it all, chancellor of the exchequer Denis Healey. Document: 14/03/2011, BBC Radio 4
She is one of Britain’s biggest and most secretive engineering projects costing over one billion pounds. And it took more than 5,000 people 14 years to build her. How to Build … a Nuclear Submarine, BBC 2010
‘There’s an extraordinary amount of expertise in putting one of these submarines together.’ ibid. navy geezer
It’s a wet and windy weekend in the middle of November. And the first new British submarine to be built for ten years is now preparing to sail out into the open sea for the very first time. ibid.
She is one of the technologically most advanced machines in the world. ibid.
The current owner of the shipyard is British defence company BAE Systems. ibid.
The surface of the boat is covered with around 40,000 rubber tiles designed to make the boat almost invisible. ibid.
The submarine’s nuclear reactor will need to be switched on. ibid.
The Astute is almost four years late on its delivery and estimated to be overspent by around £800 million. ibid.
‘You can tell the day of the week it is by the food.’ ibid. commander
My name is Nadezhda Kutepova and I’m a native of Ozersk. I was born here. My mother used to warn me, ‘Darling, never say where you are from or a Black Maria will take us away and you’ll never see your parents again.’ We were told we lived in a secret place. City 40, Netflix 2016
During WWII the Soviet Union and the United States both launched top-secret nuclear weapons programs. In 1944 the US built the secret city of Richland, Washington, around the Hanford nuclear plant that produced plutonium for the atomic bomb. One year later, with plans stolen from Richland and Hanford, the Soviet Union began construction of their own secret atomic city: City 40. ibid. caption
These people could visit us but we could never see the place where they lived. ibid. dude living nearby
To keep their location hidden from the enemy, Mayak and City 40 were not placed on any map. ibid. caption
Now, nobody cares any more. Radiation self-control skills are lost. The new authorities do not do anything. ibid. nuclear worker
‘Plutonium lake’ feeds into the Techa river, which is the region’s main water source and one of the most contaminated places on Earth. ibid. caption
Half a million people living in the Ozersk region have been exposed to five times the amount of radiation as those affected by Chernobyl. ibid.
Today, Mayak stores an estimated 50 tons of weapons-grade plutonium and 38 tons of highly enriched uranium. ibid.
Desperate to end the War the US is planning to invade Japan. But unleashing the elemental power of the atom offers another way out. President Truman makes a fateful decision to deploy the most deadly weapon ever created. Greatest Events of World War II X: Hiroshima, Netflix 2019
The tide turned with the Battle of Midway … and steadily pushing the Japanese back … The single most destructive air attack ever carried out; at the start of the campaign it destroyed 67 cities. ibid.
A fascist state … the military effectively rule the country through fear, censorship and fierce indoctrination … The authorities do everything they can to cement this sense of devotion. ibid.
By April 1945 the US have a foothold on Okinawa, less than 400 miles from Japan … The losses on both sides are appalling. ibid.
Deep in New Mexico the Manhattan Project engineers are on the verge of opening a new and even darker prospect. ibid.
The ethics of this destructive weapon are not a priority for Truman. ibid.
A burst of neutron and gamma radiation emanates out along with deadly shockwaves. In less than a second 70,000 people are killed. A giant mushroom of smoke rises from the five and a half thousand degree firestorm. ibid.
Nagasaki: at 11.01 a.m. the United States had deployed the plutonium bomb Fatman on the city. ibid.