While the threat remains a distant one, it is closer now than any time since the 1970s, say experts, and Whitehall’s civil contingency plans are once again coming under the spotlight. Russia has the greatest number of nuclear warheads in the world – nearly 4,500 compared to the United States’ 3,750. The UK is a minnow in comparison with just 225. Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, fellow at Magdalen College, Cambridge and a former British Army chemical and nuclear weapons expert… MSN News
