Det danske Fredsakademi
Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 17. Juli 2001 / Time Line July 17, 2001
Version 3.007/17/2001
UK Nuclear Weapon Safety Since 1960
On 17 July 2001, the Secretary of State for Defence published a
table outlining the circumstances of the seven accidents involving
British nuclear weapons to have occurred since 1966, none of which
have involved the release of radioactive material. An unclassified
summary of a report by Sir Ronald Oxburgh (then Chief Scientific
Adviser to the Ministry of Defence) into all aspects of nuclear
safely published in 1992 referred to "some twenty" accidents and
incidents since 1960.
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