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Article: Third World missile threat to Britain `in ten years'
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 31, 1994
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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 ...