In any case, the Energy Department is generating many new jobs as it moves to clean up five decades of pollution from military uranium processing and weapons manufacturing.

We finance weapons manufacturing and militarism as if they were the only solutions to international conflict.

Our people should know where the Chinese have their atomic weapons manufacturing and storage facilities.

Today's Columns The big names in American weapons manufacturing are saying their operations are not suited to civilian production.

Robert Alvarez, a former department official and an authority on nuclear weapons manufacturing, compared the choice to putting tobacco companies in charge of compensation to smokers.

In 1838 Klingenthal ended weapons manufacturing, lost the Royal Manufactory status, and became a privately owned company producing civilian goods under the "Couleau" name.

The site in Plymouth was sold in 2007, and in Chorley, there are no longer any weapons manufacturing, although there is still an office there.

The same goes for the waste produced by nuclear weapons manufacturing.

The factories within the group produce a wide array of products including aeroplanes, road vehicles, locomotives, weapons manufacturing and everyday household appliances.

A spokesman for the department said the United States was convinced that Libya was building chemical weapons manufacturing and related facilities.