Aldermaston is a picturesque English village with red-brick houses, tidy gardens and an inviting local pub. But just to the south lies a much more forbidding set of buildings. Behind double-fencing and guarded gates is the sprawling campus of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), Britain's most hush-hush research laboratory. The 304-hectare facility, a converted Second World War airfield, is home to the roughly 4,000 scientists, engineers and technicians who are responsible for maintaining Britain's nuclear warheads.
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