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Nuclear Testing

Volume 174: debated on Wednesday 13 June 1990

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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if there has ever been a joint United Kingdom-United States nuclear warhead test in (i) Nevada, (ii) the Pacific islands or (iii) Australia.

All United Kingdom nuclear tests in Nevada have been joint United Kingdom-United States activities; the United Kingdom permitted the United States to use its Pacific (Christmas Island) test site for the Operation Dominic series of tests in 1962; all tests in Australia were United Kingdom national tests.