Blogposts tagged 'Aldermaston'

50 years on, still campaigning for peace

Posted by bex - 2 April 2008 at 11:23am - 2 Comments

Linking hands to surround the base

Thousands joined hands to surround Aldermaston base on Easter Monday

On the Easter weekend of 1958 - a few weeks after the birth of CND - thousands of people braved the icy weather and marched from London to the nuclear weapons factory at Aldermaston in Berkshire to protest the building of nuclear bombs. The march marked the birth of the peace movement in Britain.

Sadly, 50 years on, the peace movement is needed as much as it ever was; last year, our government (which counts many former CND members among its numbers) voted to replace Trident, and to lock the world into at least another 50 years of nuclear bombs. Despite the rhetoric of Brown's recent national security strategy (he wants "to free the world from nuclear weapons", apparently), £5 billion is being poured into building new facilities at Aldermaston to design new nuclear bombs - most likely in contravention of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

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Join in - surround the UK's WMD factory on March 24th

Posted by tracy - 29 February 2008 at 4:19pm - 12 Comments

CND the bomb stops here posterIt seems a sad milestone to celebrate - 50 years of anti-nuclear protest. Not the protesting bit, but that 50 years later insanity still prevails in our governments and there are approximately 27,000 nuclear weapons in the world.

This Easter marks the 50th anniversary of the first legendary march on Aldermaston, the UK nuclear weapons laboratory. It was a four day march from London in snow and rain and one of the biggest protest movements ever to emerge in Britain.

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Stand up for what you believe in

Posted by tracy - 5 January 2007 at 3:05pm - 0 Comments
At the end of November 400 citizen weapons inspectors converged on the Aldermaston Nuclear Weapons Facility to expose the fact that the government is about to break international law and build a new nuclear bomb. Among the weapons inspectors was Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop. Read her update about why she's standing up against Trident replacement and calling on politicians to find the courage to be counted on an issue that deeply affects all of our futures.

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Tony wants to go out with a bomb

Posted by tracy - 4 December 2006 at 8:00am - 0 Comments

Modelling the bomb - a supercomputer like the one planned for AWE Aldermaston simulates a nuclear explosion

Modelling the bomb - a supercomputer like the one planned for AWE Aldermaston simulates a nuclear explosion

Tony Blair revealed that he intends to build new nuclear weapons to replace the current Trident nuclear weapons system. He plans to spend £20bn on a new generation of submarines for Trident missiles while joining the US programme to extend the life of the current Trident missile system.

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Artists on Aldermaston

Posted by bex - 2 December 2006 at 12:48am - 0 Comments

One of the hundreds of citizens inspecting Aldermaston earlier this week was the artist Kurt Jackson. He’s best known for his paintings of the Cornish landscape, but it turns out he’s also a dab hand at sketching nuclear weapons facilities. In the rain. Under the scrutiny of nosy police officers.

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Citizens inspection of nuclear bomb making factory at Aldermaston

Posted by bex - 27 November 2006 at 5:47pm - 0 Comments

Anita Roddick at Aldermaston

© Greenpeace

Hundreds of citizen weapons inspectors have just spent this morning patrolling through the muddy fields of England. They came from all over the UK, converging on the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) facility at Aldermaston. They arrived from all directions, by bus, train, bicycle and on foot.

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Hundreds converge on nuclear bomb facility at Aldermaston

Posted by darren - 27 November 2006 at 10:10am - 0 Comments

Weapons Inspector at Aldermaston

It was a mucky, wet morning in Berkshire - but that didn't stopped hundreds of people from all over the country converging on the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) facility at Aldermaston. They arrived from all directions, by bus, train, bicycle and on foot. Their mission? To carry out the world's largest ever inspection of a nuclear weapons factory, following reports that Tony Blair is building a new nuclear weapon.

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Trident replacement may be illegal under international law

Posted by darren - 23 November 2006 at 10:45am - 0 Comments

We have obtained an independent, authoritative legal opinion from a top international lawyer indicating that replacing or renewing Britain's Trident nuclear weapons system is inconsistent with international law, putting Tony Blair at risk of breaking the same international disarmament treaty that he says Iran must respect.

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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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