So we no longer have control over our own Nuclear capabilities? Could you imagine the French selling off their WMD's to a foreign power?
Oh wait, aren't the French buying our domestic nuclear fuel production?
None of this sounds right to me.
(From the BBC)
The government has sold its last remaining shares in the Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment in Berkshire to an American company.
The move means Britain no longer has any stake in the production of its Trident nuclear warheads.
Opposition MPs have criticised the sale, but the Ministry of Defence said Britain's "sovereign interests" had been protected.
The fee paid by California-based Jacobs Engineering has not been disclosed.
The sale of British Nuclear Fuels' stake means Jacobs has control of one third of Aldermaston's operating company, AWE Management.
The other two thirds were already in private hands. They are split equally between American defence giant Lockheed Martin and the British plc Serco.
Would that be AWE of the SHOCK and AWE brothers?
Link to BBC Article
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