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New questions and contradictions in Coalition policy on Trident

Two fairly big news stories about Trident this week: former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell has written in the Financial Times calling for a...

'Disturbing' gaps in emergency plans for UK's nuclear weapons factories

Nuclear Information Service has published a study by independent consulting engineers Large & Associates which compares emergency arrangements at the...

A call to disarm Vince

On Saturday, Paul Tippell launched TRAKNAT in Twickenham.  Traknat is a local network of campaigning groups he has established to bring together local...

“Countdown to zero” in Brass Monkey pub

Between 7 and 9:30 pm of Thursday the 26th April, in the Brass Monkey pub, the documentary “Countdown to zero” traced the history of the atomic bomb, up until...

Revealed: extent of US-UK cooperation on the Atomic Weapons Establishment's 'Project Pegasus'

Lookd like the scientists at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) have been getting their big brothers to help them with their homework!  Confidential...

Put yourself on the map!

No nuclear weapons here!  Put yourself on the map if you want a world free of nuclear weapons! Today all British nuclear weapons are based on the Clyde...

How many cuts does it take to play for Trident?

CND have just published an new online web game that lets you choose how to spare cuts in public services by axing the programme to replace Trident nuclear...

Evidence against replacing Trident builds up

A couple of new reports add to the growing body of evidence which indicates that the UK does not need to replace its Trident nuclear weapons.  The think...
Greenpeace activists don radiation suits and parade through some of Jakarta's mo

The Man Don’t Give A Fukushima

Hello Folks! How much money is being sunk on renewing the Trident nuclear submarine-based weapons system in the UK that could be spent on keeping renewable...

More nuclear weapons building at the Atomic Weapons Establishment

Yet more money being wasted on plans to develop new nuclear warheads at the Atomic Weapons Establishment: the local planning authority has given permission for...

Kumi Naidoo at Peace Conference in Munich

Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace International, gives a speech on the 10. International Peace Conference (10. Internationale Friedenskonferenz) in...

Say no to atomic weapons development - or is it no say...?

Berkshire Greenpeace are campaigning against a planning application to West Berkshire District Council by the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) at Aldermaston...
Tricycle goes Nuclear

The Tricycle goes Nuclear

In the Theatre... THE BOMB - a partial history (in two parts) A historical, anarchic and engaging look at the Nuclear Bomb from its beginnings in the 1940s,...

Archives reveal Thatcher government's dirty doings over Trident

Cabinet documents from 1981 released under the 30-year rule reveal that two-thirds of Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet were opposed to purchasing the Trident...
Trident - Don't buy it

Peace on Earth, goodwill to all and time to cut Trident

Without attempting to begin a Christmas message promoting peace and goodwill towards all men - it has certainly been an eventful year, where for many positive...

Trident replacement spend to reach nearly £4 billion by 2016

Defence ministers have revealed that £3.9 billion will be spend on the programme to replace the UK's Trident nuclear weapons system by 2016 - spending that...

Ministry of Defence submits planning application for joint UK-France warhead research facility

The Ministry of Defence has submitted a planning application to West Berkshire Council for construction of a joint UK-France nuclear warhead research facility...

Ministry of Defence spending £2billion on nuclear warhead factory

Investigative journalist Rob Edwards, writing in the Guardian, has revealed how the Mininstry of Defence is spending over £2 billion on rebuilding the UK's...

Submarine reactor test site no longer necessary

Good news: the BBC reports that the HMS Vulcan test site in northern Scotland for nuclear reactors for the Navy's submarine fleet is no longer needed and is...

Heading for a new and dangerous “era of nuclear weapons”?

Worrying article on the Guardian website highlighting a report published for the British American Security Information Council. Seems the whole world needs...
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