§ Mr. Beithasked the Secretary of State for Defence (1) if his Department has any contingency plans for management of fissionable materials removed from (a) nuclear warheads and (b) nuclear submarine cores as a result of successful multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations; and if he will make a statement;
(2) if any contingency studies have been conducted by Her Majesty's Government for the redeployment of unsafeguarded military fissionable materials such as plutonium or enriched uranium in the safeguarded civil nuclear material stockpile in the event of the successful completion of nuclear disarmament agreements.
§ Mr. Archie HamiltonThe achievement of the Government's long term goal of general and complete 357W disarmament, including nuclear disarmament, is regrettably, not a near term prospect. The question is therefore a hypothetical one on which I am not prepared to speculate.