25 January, 2016 Trident Ploughshares   M.O.D. FACE WAR CRIME CHARGE AT MERTHYR TYDFIL Powys residents go for private prosecution against Defence Minister – 11.30a.m. Wednesday 3rd February.   A group of Powys residents are aiming to initiate a private prosecution against the Secretary of State for Defence for conspiring to commit a war crime, alleging that deploying Trident, the UK’s nuclear weapon system, is a crime.   In November the group wrote to…

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STV 26 October 2015 08:49 GMT A senior Tory MP has raised fresh questions about the renewal of the UK’s nuclear deterrent and says overall cost could reach £167bn. Crispin Blunt, who chairs the Commons foreign affairs committee, said the “excessive” expenditure suggested it was time to pull the plug on the project. Mr Blunt was told by a defence minister that the estimated cost of the replacement of the ageing submarine fleet, previously thought…

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View original report at http://tridentploughshares.org/angie-zelter-2015-fast-report/ to view the embeded image galleries which are listed in the report below but not displayed. Hiroshima to Nagasaki Fast outside the Ministry of Defence in London. Written by Angie Zelter, 11August 2015. Marc (of dual French and UK citizenship) generously hosted us all in London at his home as we arrived from France, Wales and England. We were 8 in all - Marc, Julia, Jed, Marie-Claude, Sophie, Serge, Angie…

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Newport (Gwent), Cardiff, Haverfordwest, Knighton and Meifod. CND Cymru www.facebook.com/cndcymru 3rd August 2015 Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945 – 2015 Commemorations across Wales call for a halt to current state endorsed murder and war preparations People across Wales will be joining with those all over the world this week, in remembering the anniversary of the 1945 devastation of Hiroshima (August 5th) and Nagasaki (August 9th), when US atomic bombs were deliberately dropped on civilian populations…

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The American author tells Ed Pilkington about his six-year all-out immersion in the terrifying and surreal world of nuclear weapons for his latest book, Command and Control   In the autumn of 1999 Eric Schlosser was invited to Vandenberg Air Force base in California to witness the launch of a Titan II missile, the largest intercontinental ballistic missile America has ever built. At the time, he was a moderately well-known magazine writer, and Fast Food Nation, the book…

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