Inside Britain`s largest nuclear weapons site - as scientists race to build a new warhead by the 2030s
But a renewed focus on the importance of the UK's nuclear deterrent means the government is giving much of its nuclear infrastructure a facelift as it races to build a new warhead by the 2030s when the old stock goes out of service.
Sky News was among a group of news organisations given rare access to the largest of Britain's nuclear weapons locations run by AWE.
The acronym stands for Atomic Weapons Establishment - but a member of staff organising the visit told me that the public body, which is owned by the Ministry of Defence, no longer attributes the letters that make up its name to those words.
" We are just A, W, E, " she said.
She did not explain why.
Perhaps it is to avoid making AWE's purpose so immediately obvious to anyone interested in applying for a job but not so keen on weapons of mass destruction.
For the scientists and engineers, working here though, ther...
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