Blogposts tagged 'Weapons'

Join Countdown to Zero screenings across the UK for Demand For Zero day

Posted by louise - 20 June 2011 at 12:16pm - 0 Comments

A mind boggling $1,000 billion will be spent by the world’s nine nuclear-armed powers (including Britain) over the next decade on modernising nuclear weapons, says campaign group Global Zero - while UK budgets for social and environmental spending are slashed. 

But, you can do something: learn more about the issues by heading to your local cinema tomorrow, Tuesday June 21, to join the UK premiere of Countdown to Zero for Demand Zero Day.

The USA, article VI and the 13 steps: continued defiance or reluctant compliance?

Publication date:  16 April, 2004

Summary

At the 2000 Review Conference, Parties to the NPT agreed 13 practical steps towards disarmament. This briefing shows how Greenpeace believes these steps can be strengthened by the 2005 Review.

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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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NPT: Treaty banning the production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons

Publication date:  5 April, 2007

Publication date: April 2004

Summary
Greenpeace briefing on banning the production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons and other nuclear explosive devices.

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NPT: Thirteen annotated steps

Publication date:  21 March, 2007

Our revised text

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Nuclear weapons playing cards

Publication date:  11 August, 2009

The full deck of playing cards

Publication date: April 2003

Summary
Greenpeace has issued a deck of cards to delegates at the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) which are similar in design and layout to the decks the US issued to troops fighting in Iraq.

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Star Wars tests in early 2002 to break ABM treaty?

Publication date:  27 November, 2001

Parliamentary briefings

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Lockheed Martin's Safety Record

Publication date:  28 February, 2000

A summary of Lockheed Martin's health, safety and environment record

Lockheed Martin used to manage Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant currently subject to fierce official condemnation. It currently manages on behalf of the US Department of Energy four sites related to nuclear weapons.

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