Nuclear tests
01 March 1991
The last nuclear test conducted by the United Kingdom was in December 1989. Government Minister Mr.Caborn said:
"The Government regard it as essential that we continue to test nuclear weapons as long as we remain a nuclear state as we intend to do for the foreseeable future."
The French authorities had announced four tests so far in 1990, he said, and the United States three.
Hansard Oral answer 17.7.90