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Article: Where Her Majesty's weapons were.(Britain's nuclear weapons)
- Article from:
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
- Author:
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THE HISTORY OF THE WORLDWIDE deployment of U.S. nuclear weapons, revealed in the Bulletin ("Where They Were," November/December 1999, and "How Much Did Japan Know?" and "Iceland Melts," January/February 2000), generated a great deal of interest.
But the United States was not the only country to store nuclear weapons overseas during the Cold War. Official British documents declassified under the 30-year rule show that Britain made similar deployments, although the British government never drew attention at the time to its nuclear weapons movements abroad.(1)
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