Campaigners fear families are being put at risk by nuclear weapons being driven across Britain’s motorways. Warheads from weapons system Trident are shipped the length of the UK on the M6, from their base in Scotland to be refurbished in Berkshire.
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More than 800,000 people would be killed if a nuclear blast hit Birmingham. Imaging the bomb went off at ground level at the Bullring shopping centre the effects would be devastating. The city centre would be turned into a 300m wide and 200m deep crater, according to interactive data site Nukemap. An enormous fireball would engulf everything within 700m leaving Digbeth, the Jewellery Quarter and Nechells a blackened fire-damaged wreck. The upmarket neighbourhoods of Sutton Coldfield and Solihull would avoid the worst of it.
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