The fact that 18 jobs are advertised is not sufficient evidence for the claim of a new generation of nuclear weapons. A comparison with the number of jobs offered in previous years together with job loss figures (retirement, secondment etc) would be useful.

Ho hum. I suppose I should have added a smiley to my wee news item. I just didn't expect a po-faced academic to treat it as a testable hypothesis requiring a full bibliography and literature search. This is Indymedia, Roy me boy, not a research seminar.

Why did I post it if it wasn't "proof" of anything? Well, maybe I was just narked to see a major part of the UKHE jobs bulletin taken up with jobs for nuclear arms production. There are better places to advertise such 'work', although given the low moral standards and political unconsciousness of academe these days I can see that the bomb factory will attract quite a few applicants high on calibre and low on scruples...