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The United Kingdom and weapons of mass destruction

The United Kingdom is said to have an arsenal of 200 nuclear power weapons stockpiled in 1999. [1] The country had chemical weapons - as much as 60,000 tonnes after World War II including 7,000 tonnes of captured German weapons. These were disposed of in the 1960s and 1970s. A nerve gas pilot plant was destroyed in the early 1980s ending British chemical weapons programs. The United Kingdom had an offensive program for biological weapons but ratified the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention in March 1975. The defensive biological program remains strong.

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