LORD F.AIRFAX OF CAMERONasked Her Majesty's Government whether they can make a statement about the use of the Foulness Range by the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment.
§ THE LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (THE MARQUESS OF SALISBURY)The Foulness Range has been used over some years by the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, for experimental work with ordinary conventional high explosives. The work is an essential step in the development of 1135WA atomic weapons. The explosions are also used to study the effects on model structures and so provide valuable data for those forms for Civil Defence. I can say definitely that no nuclear explosions have been or will be made, nor will experiments be made with fission products or any other hazardous radioactive material.