LONDON - The British government is to ask the United States for explanations over nuclear incidents which reportedly took place at US bases in Britain during the 1950s, a defence ministry spokesman said yesterday.
"We have asked the Americans for any information they might have," a spokesman said. "But we repeat that there have been no nuclear accidents involving the release of radioactive material in the UK."
On Sunday, the Observer newspaper said documents obtained from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), showed that four incidents were concealed from the public between 1957 and 1961.