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Britain's new bomb programme exposed

Publication date: 
20 October, 2006

Summary

On 24 September 1996, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) was opened for signatures. The treaty banned all nuclear tests - thus stopping new countries acquiring nuclear weapons, and existing nuclear-weapons states from developing new nuclear weapons. Alongside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), it was hailed as a major step towards nuclear disarmament.

At the time, the Labour government played a key role in pushing for the treaty and in urging other countries to support it.

This briefing reveals:

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Join our nuclear club

Posted by jamie - 10 October 2006 at 5:01pm - Comments

How do you solve a problem like Korea?

Article tagged as: disarmament, north korea, peace

Short shrift for Trident renewal

Posted by bex - 1 June 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

Clare Short at Hay on Wye festival

Former International Development Secretary Clare Short MP delivered a withering critique of the case for Trident replacement during the Greenpeace Debate on the future of UK nuclear weapons at Hay Festival earlier this week.

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Trident renewal: Tory Leader Michael Howard dodges the issue

Posted by bex - 10 October 2005 at 8:00am - Comments

Greenpeace cyberactivist Ray Duff wrote to his local MP, Tory leader Michael Howard, for his views on the issues of renewing the UK's nuclear arsenal. We print the full text of Mr Howard's letter below.

Article tagged as: michael howard, peace, trident, UK policy

Comment matrix on Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations

Publication date: 
5 October, 2005

Summary

Comments from the US military branches to the Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations, which outlines how and under what circumstances nuclear weapons might be deployed by the US military.

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Where are the UK's nuclear ambitions taking us?

Publication date: 
26 September, 2005

Summary

We now have an extraordinary opportunity to deal with the threat of nuclear weapons. There is no military conflict between the great economic and technological powers. Indeed, they cooperate on a daily basis on trade, investment, health and many other issues. Moreover, the late 1980s and most of the 1990s saw the creation of a positive circle in which citizen action, political initiatives, disarmament treaties and independent verification reinforced each other.

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Proliferation - where civil and military nuclear ambitions form a critical mass

Publication date: 
7 September, 2005

Greenpeace opposes nuclear power not only because it is an expensive and hazardous way to produce electricity but also because it is also a key way for countries to gain access to the technology and materials needed to develop nuclear weapons.

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The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Posted by admin - 25 July 2005 at 1:00am - Comments

Painting by a survivor of the atomic bombings

Painting by a survivor of the atomic bombings

Article tagged as: hiroshima, nagasaki, nuclear weapons, trident

Why was the atomic bomb dropped in 1945?

Publication date: 
20 March, 2007

A Greenpeace background briefing summarising the American debate on the 60th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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The G8's global partnership against the spread of weapons and materials of mass destruction & the NPT

Publication date: 
4 April, 2007

Publication date: April 2004

Summary
The Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction was launched at the G8's Kananaskis Summit in Canada in 2002. A key part of the program was the disposition of surplus Russian weapons plutonium via MOX fuel.

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