The construction gate at AWE Burghfield is blockaded this morning! Check out Put Down The Sword on Twitter for updates (@PutDownTheSword): https://twitter.com/PutDownTheSword?s=09
‘Wheel Stop Trident’ ride leaves London this morning The cyclists say cut Trident, not public services Ten cyclists will set off from London this morning, heading for the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) based at Aldermaston and Burghfield in Berkshire. On their two-day trip, they will meet communities affected by government cuts and visit the offices of arms companies profiting from government subsidies. The cyclists will begin at 8.30am at the offices of arms giant Lockheed…
Oliver Tickell 26th August 2014 On the face of it, the UK government’s obsession with nuclear power defies reason. It’s very expensive, inflexible, creates ‘existential’ threats and imposes enormous ‘long tail’ liabilities tens of thousands of years into the future. But there is a simple explanation: it’s all to maintain the UK’s status as a nuclear WMD state. “The UK’s civil nuclear programme is almost entirely motivated by the UK’s wish to maintain its…
News release - 19.05.14 Contact Symon Hill (07920 037 719) or Nina Carter-Brown (07815 999 946) This morning at 7.20, a group of people began blockading the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) site at Burghfield, near Reading. The protesters, acting as part of ActionAWE [1], a campaign of nonviolent direct action, are trying to disrupt construction of a new nuclear warhead factory on the site. The new development at AWE Burghfield is being built at a…
By Emily Schwartz Greco and John Feffer We only have a few decades to deal with climate change. If humanity fails to cut back dramatically on carbon emissions by 2050, according to an alarming new UN report, our planet may warm past the point of our ability to fix the problem. Given global dependence on oil, gas, and coal, weaning every economy from fossil fuels to save Mother Earth won’t come easy or cheap. Fortunately,…
On April 24th, 2014 one small nation took a stand against the nuclear weapon giants The Islands were the site of US nuclear tests for 12 years after WWII The small Oceanic Marshall Islands is to launch an unprecedented round of lawsuits against nine nations with nuclear arms, including the US, to demand that they meet their obligations to disarm. The Pacific nation was the site of 67 US nuclear tests for 12 years following the end…
Councillor warns of warhead route dangers Former Renfrewshire Council leader Brian Lawson has warned of catastrophic consequences if a nuclear missile convoy is allowed to keep travelling on the M8. The SNP man is concerned about the convoys travelling over the Erskine Bridge and through Renfrewshire on their way to naval bases. The 19-vehicle convoys each carry up to six nuclear warheads, which are individually seven times as destructive as the A bomb that destroyed…
“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
WORLD IN CHAIINS
TRIDENT ON TRIAL
Nuclear weapons crime in the UK has been reported to Thames Valley Police.
