Nuclear Convoy Test - Plagued with Errors

Posted: 12th March 2023

An exercise testing emergency responses to a nuclear bomb convoy crashing, exploding and spreading a cloud of radioactive contamination was plagued with “errors” and “confusion”, according to official assessments by the Ministry of Defence (MoD). There were shortages of vital medical equipment, “poor” arrangements for casualties and multiple mistakes in radiation monitoring. One set of radiation readings was wrong “by a factor of 1,000 times”. At one point MoD firefighters ran out of water, and at another an MoD commander refused help from the civil fire service. There was no official assessment of whether or not the crash was caused by a terrorist.