Under pressure due to shrinking defense budgets, the governments of Great Britain and France will on Tuesday (2 November) sign an unprecendented pact on common testing of nuclear weapons - until now a no-go area due to Paris' insistence that nuclear weapons policy is a strictly national responsibility.
Under the deal, which will be penned in London by British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the two countries will be able to carry out simulations of their nuclear arsenals at a joint facility in Bourgogne, France, Elysee sources told AFP. The new lab will be functional in 2014, along with a joint Franco-British research centre in Aldermaston, in the south-east of England.
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