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Defence Nuclear Material Transport Contingency Arrangements are in place in case of accidents involving DNMs. In a report from the Nuclear Movements and Nuclear Accident Response Group [2] an extreme accident could result in a nuclear explosion. A serious vehicle collision or an aircraft crash combined with multiple failures of the MoD's secret ...
Paul Sparaco (3 March 2000), WS3 Sustainment Program (PDF), U.S. Air Force; Hans M. Kristensen (February 2005), U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Europe (PDF), Natural Resources Defense Council; Nuclear Information: US nuclear weapons in Europe, Friends of the Earth, Flanders & Brussels
Evidence given by the Nuclear Information Campaign to the Defence Select Committee (based on figures from campaign group Nukewatch UK for 2000 to 2006) give the number of convoys as ranging from two to six return journeys per year from Aldermaston to Coulport. Estimates of the warhead numbers transported during this period are that 88 were ...
A map claiming to show the areas of the US that may be targeted in a nuclear war that originally circulated in 2015 is making the rounds again, amid the Russian war in Ukraine.
The Office of Secure Transportation (OST) is a highly-specialized law enforcement division of the National Nuclear Security Administration within the United States Department of Energy. The OST's mission is to provide safe and secure transportation of nuclear weapons and components and special nuclear materials and conduct other missions in ...
A Safeguards Transporter (SGT) is a truck developed for and used by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a semi-autonomous affiliate agency of the United States Department of Energy, for the ground transport of nuclear weapons in the contiguous United States. SGTs' trailers are known as Safe Secure Trailers (SST).
Nuclear weapon convoys are regularly monitored by the nuclear disarmament campaigning network NukeWatch UK and convoys have, on occasion, been disrupted by anti-nuclear weapon protesters. [2] The SEG may escort other Ministry of Defence assets, and has escorted U.S. munitions (such as during Operation Telic).
The Protective Forces are recruited and employed by private companies, yet are trained, equipped, and under the operational command of Defense Nuclear Security, a program of the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (two Protective Forces, those at the Savannah River Site and the Idaho National Laboratory, are under ...