§ Mr. Frank CookTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the Joint Working Groups operating under the auspices of the 1958 Mutual Defence Agreement; and how many Joint Working Group meetings have been hosted in the(a) UK and (b) USA under the auspices of the 1958 Mutual Defence Agreement since May 1997. [29957]
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§ Dr. MoonieThe Joint Working Groups currently in existence under the terms of the 1958 Mutual Defence Agreement are:
Joint Working Group Title 6 Radiation Simulation and Kinetic Effects 9 Energetic Materials 22 Nuclear Materials 23 Warhead Electrical Components and Technologies 28 Non-Nuclear Materials 29 Nuclear Counter-Terrorism Technology 30 Facilities 31 Nuclear Weapons Engineering 32 Nuclear Warhead Physics 34 Computational Technology 36 Aircraft, Missile and Space System Hardening 37 Laboratory Plasma Physics 39 Manufacturing Practices 41 Nuclear Warhead Accident Response 42 Nuclear Weapon Code Development 43 Nuclear Weapon Environment and Damage Effects Since May 1997 the number of meetings connected with Joint Working Groups which have taken place in the UK and the US is:
Meetings in the UK Meetings in the US 1997 (May onwards) 64 79 1998 78 148 1999 78 123 2000 66 116 2001 61 120
§ Mr. Frank CookTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence which United States departments and establishments were represented at the October 2000 meeting of JOWOG 32. [29958]
§ Dr. MoonieThe JOWOG 32 meeting at AWE in October 2000 was attended by representatives from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque.