Nuclear Documents Found on Sidewalk

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

Nuclear Documents Found on Sidewalk

LONDON (AP) - Documents outlining unannounced British plans to 
develop new nuclear weapons have been found on a sidewalk, The 
Guardian newspaper reported Wednesday. 

The newspaper said the documents, dated March 10, were found near the 
Aldermaston nuclear-weapons factory in Berkshire, southern England 
and gave details of production targets to replace the warheads on 
Britain's U.S. Trident nuclear submarines. 

The Defense Ministry played down the significance of the information. 

``It's really no great shakes, because most of the information listed 
here is in the public domain already,'' a ministry spokeswoman said 
on condition of anonymity. 

The Guardian said the current Trident warheads - five times the size 
of the Hiroshima bomb - are to be replaced with smaller, more precise 
weapons capable of targeting enemy bunkers. 

In March, two members of Britain's MI6 and MI5 intelligence agencies 
lost laptop computers in separate lapses. One computer was stolen 
from an agent at a London subway station, and the other was lost in a 
bar. 

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