Proliferation in Parliament

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Welcome to Proliferation in Parliament, a selection of questions and debates on nuclear and missile defence issues from Parliament.

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March - July 2008

• Start worrying and learn to ditch the bomb, Letter to The Times by Douglas Hurd, Malcolm Rifkind, David Owen and George Robertson, 30 June 2008
• Britain's new nuclear abolitionists, by Rebecca Johnson, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 15 July 2008
• UK Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague speech on Nuclear Non-Proliferation, 23 July 2008
• Trident and Nuclear Submarines
• Atomic Weapons Establishments and Nuclear Transport
• Nuclear Facilities and Security
• NATO and Nuclear Weapons
• Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
• British Policy on Iran's nuclear programme
• Missile Defence
• National Security Strategy
• Chemical and Biological Weapons
• Scottish Parliament

December 2007 - March 2008

• President Sarkozy speech
• Missile Defence
• The NPT and Non-Proliferation
• Trident and the UK Nuclear Programme
• UK Nuclear Infrastructure
• US Bases
• Space Weapons
• Defence Policy
• UK Policy on Iran
• European Parliament

September - November 2007

• Queen's Speech and Debates
• Trident and UK Nuclear Programme
• Missile Defence
• Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
• UK Policy on Iran
• Nuclear Testing
• Galileo
• Scottish Parliament
• European Parliament

July - August 2007

• Trident and UK Nuclear Programme
• Comprehensive Spending Review and Defence Spending
• NATO and Nuclear Weapons
• Missile Defence
• Galileo
• Nuclear Non-Proliferation (including NPT debate)
• Iran
• North Korea
• Israel
• Nuclear Test Veterans
• Depleted Uranium

June 2007

• Prime Minister Gordon Brown's new cabinet
• UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Margaret Beckett on a World Free of Nuclear Weapons, June 25, 2007
• Scottish Parliament votes to oppose Trident
• Scottish Parliament Motion for Scotland to have observer status at the 2010 NPT RevCon
• Defence Committee Chair James Arbuthnot accuses the MoD of 'misrepresenting' the Committee's report on Trident
• Written Questions concerning the Government's legal assessment of Trident replacement
• Questions on Missile Defence and Putin's comments on Nuclear Targeting

May 2007

• MPs continue to raise questions about Trident replacement
• MPs and Lords ask questions on the NPT, fissban, and nuclear disarmament
• Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett on Iran
• Missile Defence featured in Defence Oral Questions
• Calls to extend the Inquiry into the Nuclear Industry Postmortems scandal

UK Parliament Debates Trident, March 14, 2007

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