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Delivering a secure future for all

Our mission

We design and manufacture warheads and provide nuclear services to meet the needs of defence.

Careers

We’re looking for talented and ambitious people to join us in our work at the forefront of nuclear defence engineering, science and technology.

About us

We are a team of remarkable people achieving extraordinary things, with some of the most advanced research and production facilities in the world.

Our suppliers

There will be opportunities for businesses across a wide range of sectors in both our Astraea and infrastructure programmes.

The work we do makes a real difference, nationally and locally. It is vitally important work that we’re proud to do.

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Latest News

Two decades of collaboration reaps rewards

A team of AWE physicists and academics from the University of Oxford who have been collaborating for 20 years to solve a ‘grand challenge’ – which had proved elusive until now – have had their work published in the Journal of Applied Physics.

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Community News

New emergency text alerting service

People living near AWE’s Aldermaston and Burghfield sites can now sign up to a new emergency text alerting service. Residents in the detailed emergency planning zones (DEPZ) around the sites will receive a letter explaining about the new scheme and how to register.

Latest News

AWE becomes new corporate member

We are pleased to announce that AWE has become a proud corporate member of the Institute of Collaborative Working (ICW), which aims to promote best practices and standards in how organisations collaborate – internally and externally – to deliver value to our partners, customers and suppliers.  ICW’s CEO, Frank Lee, said: “AWE’s commitment to collaborative working […]

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