Article: Third World missile threat to Britain `in ten years'

A pounds 5M STUDY into defending Britain against ballistic missile attack, focusing on a potential threat from the Third World, has been brought forward amid indications that at least one Muslim state - Pakistan - has nuclear weapons.

The study will start shortly and report in mid-1996, according to Ministry of Defence sources who believe there could be a direct missile threat to Britain from the Third World in 10 years' time.

A month ago Roger Freeman, Minister of State for Defence Procurement, said that tenders for the study had been received from British Aerospace and Logica and that the result would be announced in the autumn. But last week sources said the study would begin in "late ...

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