NIS was founded in 2000 as a distribution point for information collected by grass-roots groups about activity in the UK nuclear weapons programme. Our work is dedicated to uncovering the secrecy and challenging the myths about the UK’s nuclear weapons, particularly the warhead development programme at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE). Our local presence based close to AWE uniquely places us to undertake such work, and to press the Establishment to increase its accountability to neighbouring communities and the wider public.

The commission consisted of the development of a platform that, on the one hand, serves as a loudspeaker for news about nuclear programs and, on the other, includes an extensive document library aimed at researchers. The work was done in collaboration with the cooperative Netuxo.