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…
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…
FEARS have been raised over the safety of the nation’s nuclear arms cache after seven police officers attached to AWE Burghfield resigned amid reports of widespread security lapses. Campaigners fear the Trident missile factory could be vulnerable to terrorist attacks following allegations that Ministry of Defence officers were skipping routine security patrols, with up to 50 allegedly being probed for failing to fulfil basic checks. Most officers patrolling the site, which is often at the…
Take your pick of the reasons. The eye-watering cost? Risk of nuclear accidents? Breeches of International Laws? Radioactive pollution from the production sites? The sheer immorality? The list goes on…… Currently there is a rare window-of-opportunity on this issue. As CND Vice-President, Rebecca Johnson, currently touring the UK with her “New Ban the Bomb” show says: “We’ve campaigned for many decades and are now at a tipping point when we could ban and abolish nuclear…
MoD calls in IPCC over accusations of failures at AWE site at Burghfield As many as 50 officers are involved in the inquiry, and seven have resigned Burghfield factory makes the warheads for Trident ballistic missiles By DAMIEN GAYLE The MoD has reported the allegations to the Independent Police Complaints Commission. It added that seven officers have resigned without facing disciplinary charges. A source told the Daily Mirror: ‘At least some of the police were…
Reporter: Jane Meredith Reporter Email: [email protected] ANTI-NUCLEAR protesters picketed West Berkshire Council’s (WBC) offices yesterday (Wednesday), waving protest placards to highlight concerns about nuclear emergency planning arrangements at AWE Aldermaston. The protest, by members of the Nuclear Awareness Group (NAG), was timed to co-incide with a mock emergency exercise in relation to (AWE) Aldermaston, situated on the outskirts of the large town of Tadley and also close to Aldermaston village. AWE manufactures and maintains the warheads for…
By Helen Morton A REMEMBRANCE vigil was held outside the gates of the AWE Aldermaston site last Sunday by a group of protestors. Women from the Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp, AWPC and Women in Black Against War, held the silent vigil outside the main gates of the factory at 11am for 15 minutes. Hazel Makepeace, of AWPC, said: “Our 15-minute silent vigil outside AWE is an annual event to remember all those lost, bereft, disabled…
THE Atomic Weapons Establishment has been criticised after a radioactive substance was found in Aldermaston Stream. AWE was served with a formal warning letter by the Environment Agency following the detection of increased levels of tritium – a radioactive form of hydrogen – in the stream. It has emerged this week that the warning letter was sent in August after investigations were conducted to establish why unusual levels of tritium had been detected in the…
“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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TRIDENT ON TRIAL
Nuclear weapons crime in the UK has been reported to Thames Valley Police.