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    weapons. It is the successor to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE) with its main site on the former RAF Aldermaston and has major facilities...
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    Awre (/ɔːr/) is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in the Forest of Dean District of Gloucestershire, England, near the River Severn. Both the...
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  • followed by the Soviets with Joe 4, the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE) at Aldermaston was asked about the possibilities for a very large pure fission...
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    order for use on the Wildcat. AWRE Red Beard nuclear bomb – Carried by the Buccaneer, Scimitar and Sea Vixen (retired). AWRE WE.177 nuclear bomb – Carried...
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  • that could be relevant the AWRE programme. The potential of lasers for stockpile stewardship was realised in the 1970s by AWRE scientist Brian Thomas, who...
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    Blakeney, Gloucestershire (category Awre)
    Blakeney is a village in Gloucestershire, England. It in the parish of Awre and has views of the Forest of Dean. It was the site of a Roman villa, dating...
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  • Awre for Blakeney railway station is a closed railway station in Gloucestershire, England, which served both the village of Awre and the town of Blakeney...
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    A.F.C. Aldermaston (redirect from AWRE F.C.)
    from a Latin phrase meaning "deeds, not words". The club was founded as AWRE Football Club in 1952 by Charles Green, Ted Hall, Gordon Carter, and Don...
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    Establishment (AWRE), now known as AWE, became the area's largest employer, and many houses were built during this period to accommodate AWRE workers. Though...
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    Aldermaston Court is a country house and private park built in the Victorian era for Daniel Higford Davall Burr with incorporations from a Stuart house...
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    Closed stations Adlestrop Andoversford and Dowdeswell Andoversford Junction Awre for Blakeney Badminton Barbers Bridge Berkeley Berkeley Road Bilson Halt...
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    School for Sustainable Construction) to survey the site - in particular, the AWRE Labs 4 and 5, or pagodas - using drones and a dog-like robot named Spot,...
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    Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE) laboratories at Orford Ness.The body of the item is marked AWRE/6/79 / HGYC and QV 06 79 / REF. No. 76D/00...
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  • 1. Glennie subsequently worked at Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE) where he was responsible in the early 1960s in developing FORTRAN compilers...
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    then AVEVA), and the other to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE), Aldermaston. The University of Manchester's Atlas was decommissioned in...
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    Awre Lydney Formerly also known as Blideslow and Blideslau, the hundred is named after the hamlet of Bledisloe. Once a tithing of the parish of Awre and...
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  • nuclear-armed cruise missile project, replaced by Blue Streak Blue Oak – AWRE Atlas 2 super-computer used for simulation of nuclear explosions Blue Orchid...
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    (AWE), Aldermaston, formerly the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE), is situated on a 750-acre (300 ha) site near Reading in Berkshire. It was...
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    inspection, and then flew to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE) at Aldermaston in the UK in a Royal Air Force (RAF) Handley Page Hastings...
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    Closed stations Adlestrop Andoversford and Dowdeswell Andoversford Junction Awre for Blakeney Badminton Barbers Bridge Berkeley Berkeley Road Bilson Halt...
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  • 1970s. Whilst Chief Engineer at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE), Aldermaston, John Dolphin worked on the Red Beard trigger mechanism. Subsequently...
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  • Royal Ordnance upon privatisation. They were transferred to the control of AWRE; which later became the Atomic Weapons Establishment. On 2 January 1985,...
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  • Bledisloe Tump (category Awre)
    Bledisloe Tump was a castle in the village of Awre in Gloucestershire, England. The first castle on the site was built in the 11th or early 12th century...
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    the larger District Council area. Towns and villages Alvington Aylburton Awre Berry Hill Blaize Bailey Blakeney Bream Brierley Broadwell Cinderford Clearwell...
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    ambitious project by Isambard Kingdom Brunel was to bridge the Severn near Awre for his projected South Wales Railway, bypassing Gloucester completely. This...
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    at Fort Halstead was renamed the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE), with William Penney as its first director. The atomic energy research function...
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  • illness that only affects men is believed to be caused by a spirit called awre. This affliction presents itself by loss of appetite, nausea, and attacks...
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  • while he was protesting near the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE). Soon afterward, he too was arrested by the police. On 22 May 1963, shortly...
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    Coleford, Lydney, Newent, and Newnham. 1918–1950: The Urban Districts of Awre, Coleford, Newnham, and Westbury-on-Severn, the Rural Districts of East Dean...
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  • Weapons Research Establishment, UK: U.S. Department of Energy. pp. 8–10, 19. AWRE Report No. NR 5/63. [14] (23 pages) Klinkowski, James J. (1967-03-14) [1964-03-23]...
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