There's a great BBC documentary[1] about the Windscale fire that goes into quite some detail about the US-UK "Special Relationship" when it came to atomic weapo

There's a great BBC documentary[1] about the Windscale fire that goes into quite some detail about the US-UK "Special Relationship" when it came to atomic weapons information sharing, which largely boiled down to some tacit arrangements that if the UK could show that it could develop its own nukes, the US might be more forthcoming on their designs. The Windscale accident itself was largely the fault of the British establishment who pushed it beyond the limits of safety for speed, and repurposed it to manufacture isotopes it was never designed to handle. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElotW9oKv1s&list=PLA0A54E363E0B0008 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElotW9oKv1s&list=PLA0A54E363...