Taking on the big guns
As with Mary Wareham, weapons have formed the basis of Angela Woodward’s professional calling, albeit weapons of a different scale. And for a time, Woodward also found herself in Norway as part of her work.
It was 2008, and on a desperately cold Norwegian winter’s day, Woodward watched as a nuclear warhead was loaded into a truck. The weapon was then transported to a university in Oslo, with Woodward in pursuit. On arrival, she saw technicians measure the device’s radiation-transmission signature before dismantling it. The fissile material was removed and taken to an underground nuclear-waste bunker for storage.
The armament wasn’t real. It was a replica, made as part of a UK-Norway initiative on nuclear-warhead dismantlement. The aim of the exercise was
