New Statesman 1983

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Germany helps Brazil to nuclear supremacy 

A West German research institute is supplying Brazil with rocket and missile technology suitable for the construction of ballistic nuclear missiles, according to a Berlin-based scientific research group.

5 August, 1983

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Army up to new dirty tricks?

Details of a new undercover
British Army unit which operated behind Argentine lines in the Falklands war have inadvertently been revealed by the Ministry of Defence.

12 August, 1983

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US funding anti- CND 

A secret anti-CND opinion
poll, one of a series costing up to £100,000, is taking place this week throughout Britain.

26 August, 1983

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The monster that won’t lie down

Britain, France and West Germany are in the process of drawing up an agreement to finance the first of a proposed new network of controversial 'fast' reactors.

2 September, 1983

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Spy in the sky 

Duncan Campbell examines the long drawn-out electronic intelligence war between East and West, which was the background to last week's shooting down of the Korean Airlines jumbo.

9 September, 1983

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Publisher tries to privatise defence list

Security officials in the MoD have become alarmed at the prospect of the KGB being able to purchase dial-up directories of everyone working in the Whitehall headquarters

16 September, 1983

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Nothing really new

Reagan three-point package of 'new' disarmament proposals contained only one concession to the Soviet Union - the offer to extend the discussions to include in the negotiations aircraft with
nuclear capacity as well as missiles.

30 September, 1983

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Don’t say crown say Bovis

Senior Department of the Environment officials have ignored legal and other warnings that a new system of contracting, favoured by
private industry, will end up costing the taxpayer more.

14 October, 1983

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Bases build-up

US officials are seeking final approval for plans that would expand US military forces in
Britain to a level unknown for 30 years - including plans for Britain include 8,000 hospital beds, for war use only.

21 October, 1983

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Home Office creeps out of its bunker 

New civil defence regulations, intended to compel 'nuclear free' local authorities to make war plans and build nuclear bunkers for officials, are to be debated in the House of Commons.

28 October, 1983

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Cruise missile base nears completion

Only one of the six silos or 'shelters' for ground launched cruise missiles was complete last weekend when this photograph was taken.

28 October, 1983

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Absolutely standard 

'Routine' political surveillance of peace campaigners and researchers has been uncovered by the BBC Watchdog unit, part of BBC 1's new Sixty Minutes programme.

28 October, 1983

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Outside the law 

If an American serviceman on duty at any US base in Britain shot a British demonstrator or passer-by, whether accidentally or deliberately, he would not under any circumstances be charged before a British court.

18 November, 1983

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Triumph of bad faith

The Soviet walkout from the Geneva talks on limiting 'intermediate nuclear forces' (INF) is a qualified triumph for the West's nuclear hawks.

2 December, 1983

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Holocaust on television

The day after the $7.5 million
American film about the period before and after a nuclear attack on the US, is the first in a series of films on nuclear Armageddon.

2 December, 1983

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Failure of cruise missile test in US 

The first US Air Force test flight of a ground-launched cruise missile has been a failure, the Pentagon
has admitted.

16/23 December, 1983

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