Aldermaston

British  

/ ˈɔːldəˌmɑːstən /

noun

1. a village in S England, in West Berkshire unitary authority, Berkshire, SW of Reading: site of the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment and starting point of the Aldermaston marches (1958–63), organized by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Pop: 927 (2001)

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Example Sentences

Re-tested at Aldermaston, it yielded an astonishing result: in excess of 17m becquerels per sq cm.

From The Guardian • Mar. 6, 2016

Scientists at Aldermaston are more accustomed to working with nuclear weapons, but they used their expertise to search for radioactive poison.

From BBC • Jul. 28, 2015

By pure chance another Aldermaston scientist, who'd worked on Britain's early atomic bomb programme decades ago, happened to overhear his colleagues discussing this small spike in the trace.

From BBC • Jul. 28, 2015

She was disappointed by the lack of press at Aldermaston, but thrilled by the people she met, especially the veteran campaigner Pat Arrowsmith, on whom she evidently has a kind of girl crush.

From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2013

At Aldermaston land is let by means of a lighted candle.

From Vanishing England by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)