Will there be a nuclear war?
It’s strange how life continues as normal. People walk in the park, tend their spring gardens, head off for bank holiday revelries. Yet nuclear war has never been so possible; perhaps, never so...
View ArticleCorbyn: great vision, shame about the nukes
Jeremy Corbyn has a truly humane and decent approach to international relations and that showed through this morning in his Defence and Foreign Policy address at Chatham House. With an emphasis on...
View ArticleThe Korean nuclear crisis: in depth
Academic specialist Dr Jenny Clegg shares background intel on the Korean nuclear crisis The Korean crisis has heightened anxieties once again over the dangers of nuclear catastrophe. With North Korea...
View ArticleElection: Trident scaremongering fails spectacularly
The Conservative bid to gain votes by scaremongering about the nuclear threat has spectacularly failed. So too have their attempts to suggest that Jeremy Corbyn cannot be trusted because he won’t...
View ArticleNuclear power: end of an era?
News that Three Mile Island nuclear power plant may be shut down in 2019 will reawaken the stuff of nightmares for many of the older generation. Think before Chernobyl, or Fukushima and the horrors we...
View ArticleThe latest from the Ban Treaty talks
CND chair Dave Webb has been participating at the UN talks in New York - here he shares his experience of civil society input into the negotiations and reflects on the discussions taking place. "The...
View ArticleLatest details on the nuclear ban treaty
As nuclear ban treaty negotiations continue at the UN, Ray Acheson, from the Nuclear Ban Daily, reports on the latest developments "Wednesday’s negotiating sessions were off-the-record, so the Nuclear...
View ArticleUN nuclear ban treaty finalised – but the struggle continues
CND has been campaigning for the global abolition of nuclear weapons ever since its foundation in 1958, so the news today that the United Nations has agreed a treaty which can make exactly that happen...
View ArticleLooking at US/Russia relations
We live in interesting times when it comes to US relations with pretty much any part of the world. President Trump’s idiosyncratic approach to policy often leads to mixed messages. Trump tweets one,...
View ArticleControlling the nuclear football?
As US and South Korean war games continue apace, the extreme tension with North Korea - and the possibility of nuclear war - remains. So in the event of President Trump deciding that the ‘fire and...
View ArticleNorth Korea: why war is not the answer
Terrible news this morning that North Korea has tested a hydrogen bomb, against international law and the wishes of the international community and all peace-loving people. This is a disastrous...
View ArticleSupport EDM 243: Conflict with North Korea
Huge thanks to Caroline Lucas MP, Chair of Parliamentary CND for putting down EDM 243, backed by cross party sponsors: Catherine West MP, Hywel Williams, Martyn Day, David Linden and Jonathan Edwards....
View ArticleWhy Labour must support the nuclear ban treaty
Yesterday the United Nations’ nuclear weapons ban treaty opened for signature. As I write, states from across the world are stepping forward to sign up to prohibit nuclear weapons – over 50 on current...
View ArticleLabour and NATO? wrong policy
Naturally I was dismayed to hear Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry state proudly in her conference speech that Britain under Labour “will be a strong leader within NATO, committed to spend 2...
View ArticleUnity of our movements: a force for change
The world is an increasingly dangerous place, whether we’re talking about nuclear modernisation and increasing militarism, threats of nuclear use, the rise of the far right and reactionary nationalism,...
View ArticleVictoria Brittain at the MoD
On Saturday 9th December, as campaigners gathered in Oslo for the award of the Nobel peace prize to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, ICAN campaigners in London gathered outside...
View Article2017: a year of contradictions
Looking back on 2017, there’s no doubt we are living in dangerous times - when the media routinely discusses the possibility of world war three, something is going very badly wrong. But we are also...
View ArticleSupport Afrin: the European peace movement mobilises
We have all been shocked by Turkey's attacks on the peaceful enclave of Afrin under the pretext of 'self defence' and the 'fight against terrorism'. This war is in violation of international law and...
View ArticleTrump's nuclear posture review makes war more likely
Last week saw the release of the latest - and already leaked - US nuclear posture review. These reviews can be a powerful indicator of a president’s intentions and this one will, no doubt, be a taste...
View ArticleCND at 60
In October 1952, Britain tested its first atomic bomb over the Monte Bello Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The following month, the US tested a 10.4 megaton hydrogen bomb – more than the total explosives...
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