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Article: Dounreay helped to build nuclear bombs.(News)

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August 5, 1998
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Tony Blair

was yesterday accused of misleading Parliament after it was revealed deadly waste from Dounreay was used to build nuclear bombs.

Two months ago, the Premier told MPs "no such material has ever been sent from Dounreay for ... weapons purposes".

And the UK Atomic Energy Authority have always denied any link between the Caithness plant and the weapons research factory at Aldermaston in Berkshire.

But now one of Mr Blair's Cabinet colleagues has ...

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