Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 16:23:11 
 
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     Aug. 18, 1996 (Reuter) - The British newspaper Observer
said an atom bomb almost exploded in eastern England 40 years
ago after a U.S. plane crashed at Lakenheath air base, but the
Defense Ministry denied there was ever a risk of nuclear
catastrophe. The paper published an excerpt from a report by a
senior U.S. officer on the incident involving a Mark Six
Nagasaki-type bomb. Britain's Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
has been claiming for weeks that the ministry covered up the
gravity of a number of accidents involving nuclear weapons in
Britain in the 1950s. It says that fissile material leaked in
an incident at Greenham Common, another U.S. base.


     Aug. 19, 1996 (Reuter) - India has written to the United
States expressing hope a draft CTB Treaty can be amended to
take into account New Delhi's strong objections. India wants
the pact to impose a strict nuclear disarmament time table on
the five declared nuclear powers -- Britain, China, France,
Russia and the United States.