Content deleted Content added
m Corrections to a few minor points; date of closure was erroneous and a few bits of terminology. |
Rescuing 2 sources and tagging 0 as dead. #IABot (v1.6.1) (Balon Greyjoy) |
||
Line 172:
Two scientists, F. H. Cripps and A. Stimson, who both worked for the [[Atomic Weapons Research Establishment]] at [[Aldermaston]], alleged in a secret 1961 report, released by the [[CND]] in 1996, that the fire detonated the high explosives in the nuclear weapon, that plutonium and uranium oxides were spread over a wide area (foliage up to 8 mi (13 km) away was contaminated with [[uranium-235]]) and that they had discovered high concentrations of radioactive contamination around the air base.<ref>''The Distribution of Uranium 235 and Plutonium 239 around the United States Airforce base at Greenham Common'', July 1961 by F H Cripps & A Stimson, AWRE,Aldermaston</ref>
However, a radiological survey commissioned in 1997 by [[West Berkshire|Newbury District Council]] and [[Basingstoke and Deane]] found no evidence of a [[nuclear accident]] at Greenham Common, suggesting that Cripps and Stimson's claims were false. The seven-month long survey was carried out by the Geosciences Advisory Unit of [[Southampton University]] and combined a [[helicopter]]-mounted [[gamma ray]] detector survey with a ground-based survey. The team analysed nearly 600 samples taken from soil, lake sediment, borehole water, house dust, runway tarmac and concrete, looking for uranium and plutonium [[isotope]]s. No evidence of an accident involving nuclear weapons damage was found at the former air force base although the ground survey detected some low-level uranium contamination around the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston thought to be derived from that facility, and the helicopter survey found some anomalies around [[Harwell Laboratory]].<ref>[http://www.soton.ac.uk/~newrep/vol14/no12news.html Greenham Common given 'all-clear'-leaving childhood leukaemia clusters a mystery] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051211100755/http://www.soton.ac.uk/~newrep/vol14/no12news.html |date=11 December 2005 }}, Southampton University in-house newsletter ''New Reporter'' Vol 14, No 12, 10 March 1997</ref>
==In popular culture==
Line 197:
* Ravenstein, Charles A. (1984). Air Force Combat Wings Lineage and Honors Histories 1947–1977. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. {{ISBN|0-912799-12-9}}.
* Rogers, Brian (2005). United States Air Force Unit Designations Since 1978. Hinkley, England: Midland Publications. {{ISBN|1-85780-197-0}}.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060925110244/http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~pettypi/elevon/baugher_us/ Joe Baugher's Encyclopedia of American Aircraft]
* [http://home.att.net/~jbaugher/usafserials.html USAAS-USAAC-USAAF-USAF Aircraft Serial Numbers—1908 to Present]
* [http://www.strategic-air-command.com/home.htm Strategic-Air-Command.com]
|