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…
1. FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, EUSTON ROAD LONDON There is a full day around Friends House, Euston Rd. for Hiroshima Day on Thursday 6th August. 173 Euston road London NW1 2BJ. At 12 noon there will be a gathering at the Conscientious Objectors Stone in Tavistock Sq At 2.30 - 3.30 pm there will be a multi faith event in Friends House with many contributors, followed by refreshments and exhibitions.Contact Kristin Skarsholt 020 76631121 for…
Trident Ploughshares (TP) and other groups. Thursday 6th August 2015 TP Fasters - 8.15 a.m. Commemoration and vigil at the time of dropping of Hiroshima bomb in Victoria Embankment Gardens, Whitehall Extension (near Horse Guards Avenue / Ministry of Defence), SW1. Gather at 8 a.m. 9-2,30 Some of the Fasters will join the Hiroshima Day Peace Walk organised by Christian CND 2 – 2.30 p.m. Die-in outside main entrance to Ministry of Defence. Interfaith Service…
NIS is a not-for-profit, independent information service, which works to promote public awareness and foster debate on nuclear disarmament and related safety and environmental issues NIS Update Newsletter: June 2015 Contents of this month’s NIS Update newsletter from Nuclear Information Service: Ministry of Defence reviews command arrangements to sort out nuclear weapons “mess”. Trident whistleblower William McNeilly ‘sacked to save the Navy’s image’. Atomic Weapons Establishment management contract to be terminated? Atomic Weapons…
This year the annual Hiroshima-Nagasaki Fast is coming to London! The fast is an international initiative which has been followed in France for over 30 years now, and for several years in Germany also. For two years running it has also been held in Burghfield with support from Action AWE and Trident Ploughshares. This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, and there is a strong will across Europe to mark…
Anthony Zurcher The British naval base in Faslane, Scotland, is home to four Vanguard submarines - and the source of a fierce debate that illustrates the sticky political issues presented by the rise of the Scottish National Party in this year’s general election. While it may be hard for most Americans to imagine, those four submarines, equipped with ballistic missiles, are the sum total of the UK’s atomic arsenal. While the US has ICBMs, bombers…
Action AWE co-founder and Green Party member Rebecca Johnson publicly called for ‘stupid’ Trident to be scrapped and urged the UK to join international negotiations to ban and eliminate nuclear weapons, when she went head to head with the UK Defence Secretary and defence spokespeople of the other four main parties in the general election’s Daily Politics debate on the BBC: Watch on BBC iPlayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b05sjgtg/daily-politics-2015-election-debates-defence-and-security People from outside the UK who can’t access BBC…
Pinning our security on a nuclear deterrent encourages others to do the same The election campaign to date suggests that decommissioning Trident nuclear weapons is a dangerous, minority demand led by the SNP, the Greens and Plaid Cymru. Yet poll after poll reveals that it is in fact a majority popular demand throughout the UK. One poll recently revealed that 81% of 500 general election candidates are opposed to renewal. There are increasingly obvious…
By Gordon Robertson GREEN MSP Patrick Harvie amongst those attending the demonstration on the Clyde organised by the Scrap Trident campaign. AROUND 250 anti-nuclear protestors have blockaded Faslane naval base on the Clyde. All entrances to the facility, home to the UK’s Trident submarines, are now blocked while police have arrested 36 activists at the site. The demo is part of the Scrap Trident campaign, which urges voters to back only those candidates who firmly…
“Spending £100 billion on replacing Trident is a catastrophic folly. I’m sure I am one of many who support the those, like Action-AWE, who campaign actively and imaginatively against it”
– Ken Loach
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