So what happened to the explosion of anger?

You might call it shock at AWE. At the end of last week the 4500 people working at the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston learned that they had suddenly become a wholly owned subsidiary of three US contractors when the government sold off its final one-third share to a Californian engineering concern. The complex responsible for building the new generation of warheads and for all top-secret research into the nuclear weapons programme and development is now under the control of companies already locked into the US weapons programme.