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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 17. Oktober 2005 / Time Line October 17, 2005
Version 3.516. Oktober 2005, 18. Oktober 2005
10/17/2005
Revealed: Blair's nuclear bombshell
By Andy McSmith
The Independent & The Independent on Sunday
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article320124.ece
Tony Blair is facing a political backlash over his decision to
order a new generation of nuclear weapons to replace the ageing
Trident fleet at a cost of billions of pounds.
Rebel Labour MPs will meet tomorrow to coordinate their fight
against his plans, which seem set to provoke one of the biggest
shows of opposition to Mr Blair from inside his own party since the
start of the Iraq war.
Opposition to an updated version of Trident goes far beyond MPs who
object to nuclear weapons on principle. It includes senior figures
in the military, who question whether this is the best way to spend
a tight military budget.
10/17/2005
CONTRACTS from the United States Department of Defense
Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Conn., is being awarded a $13,172,772
cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification to previously awarded
contract (N00024-02-C-2110) for an additional year of reactor plant
planning yard services. Work will be performed in Groton, Conn.
Contract funds in the amount of $12,419,441, will expire at the end
of the current fiscal year. Work completion date or any additional
information is not provided on Naval nuclear propulsion program
contracts. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the
contracting activity.
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