A decision to replace Britain’s nuclear weapons system, which would cost billions of pounds of public money, may have already been secretly made by the government more...

Oxford City Council voted 23 in favour of [and one against] protesting to the Ministry of Defence about nuclear weapons convoys coming through the City more...

Tony Blair and George Bush have been compared to Nazi war criminals by Scott Ritter, the former UN chief weapons inspector more...

SELLAFIELD’S Thorp plant has no chance of re-opening before next March at least – adding up to a virtual 12-month shutdown. more...

The senior United Nations disarmament official has called on the General Assembly’s security committee to break the diplomatic stalemate on nuclear arms. more...

The US government's aggressive new policies for nuclear weapons are being turned into military practice. more...

CND reacted with alarm to the news that the government is likely to approve BNFL's plans to sell off operations at Sellafield and other major nuclear plants to the private sector. more...

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Vice-President, Walter Wolfgang (82) called being “manhandled” out of Labour Party Conference "a small issue" compared with the invasion of Iraq more...

BRITISH Nuclear Group may be stopped from burying more low-level nuclear waste at Drigg more...

Around 30 good-natured anti-nuclear campaigners attached banners to the fence of the massive RAF Lakenheath base currently used by the USAF. more...

Clare Short MP is sponsoring a Private Members Bill more...

THERE is a "strong argument" for abandoning Britain's independent nuclear deterrent more...

It is a matter of great concern that the government is contemplating a replacement for Trident more...

Four peace activists were found not guilty of a breach of the peace at Faslane naval base more...

Peace campaigners reacted with horror to the nuclear “terrorism” of the US’s new nuclear doctrine more...

Key figures in the Labour movement will call for the government not to replace Trident more...

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has condemned Tony Blair for endorsing George Bush's decision to extend nuclear technology cooperation with India. more...

Three peace activists arrested at Faslane after anti-nuclear messages painted at the main entrance . more...

EDINBURGH will be used this month to test the UK’s response to a disaster involving weapons of mass destruction, more...

Now that the US president has announced that he has not ruled out an attack on Iran, if it does not abandon its nuclear programme, the Middle East faces a crisis that could dwarf even the dangers arising from the war in Iraq. more...

Government ministers were warned that Devonport Management Ltd (DML) might not be competent to control costs more...

A sponsored Cycle for Peace has taken place on Cumbrae to raise money for a legal case attempting to bring Prime Minister Tony Blair to account for war crimes in Iraq. more...

In commemoration of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 60 years ago,Turi disabled two F-16 bombers on Woensdrecht airbase. The damage runs into millions of Euros. more...

Kate Hudson, chairman of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, said: "I feel there are strong links between what happened in Hiroshima and AWE." more...

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is saddened by the death of Robin Cook and today pays tribute to his record as a politician of principle. more...

Under a blazing summer sun, survivors and families of victims assembled at the Peace Memorial Park near the spot where the bomb detonated on 6 August 1945 more...

A thousand trade unions, MPs, MEPs MSPs, bishops, actors, writers, campaigning groups and peace lovers from across the UK more...

Following the BBC Newsnight report, which revealed that Britain secretly supplied Israel with 20 tons of heavy water, enabling it to make nuclear weapons more...

Among the walkers is Mr. Yoshio Sato, a 74-year old survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima who has made a special journey to Flanders to support and encourage the walkers more...

One person has been killed and another injured in an explosion on a Russian nuclear submarine in dock for decommissioning. more...

There could not be a more convincing way for Tony Blair to break from the past and to demonstrate that he is a true moderniser than by making the case that nuclear weapons now have no relevance to Britain's defences in the modern world. more...

JOHN REID, the defence secretary, has taken the first steps towards replacing Britain’s nuclear deterrent by opening talks with the US government on a successor to Trident more...

TRIDENT warheads carried regularly by road to the Clyde naval base could explode if they are involved in a major crash, an internal Ministry of Defence report reveals. more...

City Hall is hosting a ‘No More Hiroshimas’ event on the 12th July 2005. The event, co-hosted by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, more...

Hundreds of peaceful protesters blocked all the vehicle entrances to the British nuclear weapons base at Faslane on the Clyde.. more...

The theoretical safety concern on HMS Torbay and HMS Tireless centred on the potential effect of a number of small manufacturing imperfections in their nuclear reactor plant. more...

A protester who claimed that his arrest was discriminatory has won his appeal to the Scottish High Court, raising further questions about the policy of Strathclyde Police in responding to peaceful protest.. more...

A cross-party group of Parliamentarians have joined church groups in expressing their backing for the planned blockade of Faslane. more...

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Now is the time for Nato's leaders to pave the way for an agreement with Russia to account for and verifiably eliminate tactical nuclear weapons more...

G8 member states are undermining their commitments to poverty reduction, stability and human rights with irresponsible arms exports more...

The US is poised to begin production of highly radioactive plutonium 238 - used previously to power spy satellites and space probes - for the first time since the Cold War more...

The United States is building new detention areas at Iraqi prisons including the notorious Abu Ghraib despite President George Bush promising that Abu Ghraib would be torn down. more...

CND is planning to publish a statement in The Independent on 6th August to mark the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. . more...

The case for Britain having an independent nuclear deterrent depended on the existence of the Soviet Union.. more...

American officials lied to British ministers over the use of "internationally reviled" napalm-type firebombs in Iraq.. more...

The Secretary of State for Defence (John Reid): Labour's recent general election manifesto spelled out our commitment to the retention of the independent nuclear deterrent. more...

Details of possible dump sites for nuclear waste, from the 1980s, have finally been revealed. A high proportion are in Scotland more...

Thirteen activists entered Faslane naval base on Monday 6th June where the UK's WMD's are held. Two scaled an additional fence inside the base to reach the high security area where Trident submarines berth more...

BASIC, the Arms Control Association, the Natural Resources Defense Council and Oxford Research Group have written to General-Secretary Jaap de Hoop Scheffer requesting that he facilitates a dialogue within NATO on the withdrawal of all US sub-strategic or tactical nuclear weapons from Europe. more...

AYRSHIRE peace campaigners are calling on the Prime Minister Tony Blair to come clean about his plans for nuclear weapons. more...

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is looking for a dynamic and experienced fundraising officer with a commitment to its campaigning priorities to join its staff team. more...

GREEN Euro-MP Caroline Lucas joined MPs from around the world in a call for the total elimination of all nuclear weapons as a UN nuclear disarmament conference in New York collapsed without agreement. more...

Delegates from 153 countries at the 2005 NPT Review Conference failed to build on past agreements and adopt any kind of decisions or recommendations for furthering progress in the vital security issues of nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament. more...

With just five days left in a month long conference, diplomats from more than 180 nations are facing a tough challenge as they search for agreement on concrete ways to strengthen Treaty controls on the spread of nuclear arms. more...

The Herald has reported that the United States Air Force is seeking White House permission to develop and deploy space-based weapons which could strike targets anywhere in the world more...

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Anti-nuclear protesters who invaded an island off Plymouth say they have elected their own mayor. The 12 members of the Trident Ploughshares group set up a peace camp on Drake's Island last Friday and declared it a nuclear-free state. . more...

Please simply read the text below. If you agree with the appeal, send an email to. more...

NGOs at the Review Conference are concerned about the possibility of a weak outcome to this Review. more...

Two protesters have been arrested after blocking an entrance to a MOD nuclear base. more...

A Church of Scotland minister, Rev David McLachlan, faces jail because of his refusal to comply. more...

When the newly elected MP’s from Scotland arrive at Westminster they will find in their mail-boxes a letter from Scottish CND. more...

In the autumn of 2002 the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament took the government to court to try and prevent war against Iraq. more...

The Prime Minister had indicated that he wants to replace Trident, but denied that any decision had been made. more...

Most people want British troops withdrawn from Iraq by the end of this year, according to a Poll by NOP for The Independent. more...

John Humphrys questioned the Foreign Secretary over the Attorney General's advice on the invasion of Iraq On Radio 4's Today Programme.. This is an edited transcript more...

Congress reaffirms its opposition to all nuclear weapons and resolves to oppose both the replacement and the extension of Trident in the coming General Election and during the next Parliament. more...

On Monday morning (25th April) at dawn Glasgow Anti-War Action and Faslane Peace Camp shut the Defence Storage and Distribution Agency based at Beith in Ayrshire more...

On the 19th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament say no to nuclear power and demands that in the run up to the general election more...

Each Party shall in exercising its national sovereignty have the right to withdraw from the Treaty if it decides that extraordinary events more...

The Seventh Review Conference of the States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) will be held in New York, May 2-27. Predictions are generally pessimistic, more...

Scottish CND election leaflet and links to other material for use in the election, including how MPs voted on Iraq more...

Almost 80% of Scots oppose government plans to purchase a nuclear alternative to Trident, according to a System Three Poll commissioned by the Scottish National Party. Voters of all political persuasions were against a new nuclear missile system more...

The United Kingdom Government would be prepared to use nuclear weapons only in extreme circumstances of self-defence. We would not use our weapons, whether conventional or nuclear, contrary to international law. more...

The mother of a Scot's soldier who was killed in Iraq is standing as an anti-war candidate against armed forces minister Adam Ingram more...

On Tuesday 5th April the UK was one of many countries around the world launching a joint appeal calling on the governments of countries with nuclear weapons to support and implement steps to lower the operational status of nuclear weapon systems.. more...

The US has rejected a proposal by the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency for a five-year, global moratorium on the construction of new facilities for enriching uranium and reprocessing plutonium. more...

A new summary of the issues involved in the Non Proliferation Treaty more...

On 24th March the Scottish Parliament debated the future of the UK's nuclear weapons more...

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A reply to a parliamentary question from Angus Robertson MP has revealed that the Government is spending 3 % of this years defence budget on nuclear weapons. This is equivalent to £980 million.

Israel has charged the nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu with violating the terms of his release from prison by speaking to foreign reporters and trying to visit the West Bank.more...

A debate on nuclear weapons will be held on Thursday 24th March. Please lobby your MSPs. more...

Israel has charged the nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu with violating the terms of his release from prison by speaking to foreign reporters and trying to visit the West Bank.more...

At Helensburgh District Court Trident Ploughshares pledger and MSP Rosie Kane was fined £150 for a breach of the peace at the blockade of Faslane naval base on 23rd August last year. more...

Peace campaigner Adam Conway from Glasgow was fined £130 for writing anti-Trident slogans on the MoD’s Media Reception Centre in Helensburgh more...

Officers of Lothian and Borders Police dismantled a large model Trident nuclear weapon submarine which had blocked the street outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh more...

THOUSANDS of people could be contaminated with radio activity in breach of safe limits if there was an accident on a nuclear submarine at the Faslane naval base on the Clydemore...

People from across Europe will take part in A Europe for Peace, an international conference in Manchester on the 5th March 2005. The Conference, organised by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (UK) and Mouvement de la Paix (France), will demand an immediate withdrawal of US nuclear weapons from Europemore...

Only a foolish pastor would wish to argue with the reasons that finally led a sinner to virtue. It is enough to welcome the fact that Roy Hattersley now thinks that British nuclear weapons, the result of Clement Attlee's "foolish decision", were a major mistake from the beginningmore...

A group of 40 anti-war protestors brought Glasgow city centre to a halt on Tuesday 15th February by staging a die-in outside of the Army Recruiting Office on Queen Street.more...

The US has more than 100 nuclear weapons at its Lakenheath base in Suffolk, three times the number previously thought, according to a respected US research agency.more...

Last year, Coulport was identified as the only suitable stite, out of 118 potential sites, to store the material from 27 submarines when they reached the end of their working lives. However, in a written statement on 9th Fevruary, Adam Ingram, the armed forces minister, said the Ministry of Defence accepted it should wait for the conclusions of deliberationsmore...

America is preparing to upgrade and renew parts of its own nuclear arsenal as it accuses Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons.more...

Spain and Gibraltar put on a rare display of unity in condemning the unscheduled arrival of an ailing Royal Navy nuclear submarine at the disputed British colony..more...

Peace campaigner and CND Vice-President Bruce Kent is making a national tour this February and March to draw attention to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference taking place in New York in May 2005.more...

Iraqi security forces have been committing widespread torture and other human rights abuses while US and British authorities turn a blind eye, according to a Report.more...

Expenditure on the Trident acquisition programme to 30 September 2003 represented over 99 per cent. of the total estimate. If all expenditure, past and projected, is brought up to this current year's economic conditions (the non-hybrid estimate) the estimate is £14,893 million. more...

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Stop the War are organising a silent candlelit protest outside the US Embassy to mark the day of Bush's inauguration. Kate Hudson, Chair of CND, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Bruce Kent, Pat Arrowsmith, Rae Street, whistleblower David Shayler, George Galloway, Lindsey German and others will be attending more...

Central Scotland MSP Carlolyn Leckie was sentenced to seven days in prison for refusing to pay a fine for taking part in a blockade of Faslane naval base in February 2002 more...

Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker Magazine claims the Pentagon has been conducting secret reconnaissance of potential target sites inside Iran. more...

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has sent a list of recommendations to Les Neverton Head of Environmental Services at Plymouth City Council. The letter highlights a number of serious concerns CND has about safety issues involved in the ten year refit programme of Britain’s nuclear powered, nuclear armed submarines in Devonport Dockyards. more...

Green MEP Caroline Lucas has renewed her commitment to a complete ban on all nuclear weapons ahead of a UN-sponsored nuclear disarmament conference taking place in New York later this year. more...

On 23rd December four people were arrested at Faslane, home to the UK’s Trident missile submarines, after blockading the main gate of naval base for two hours. more...

The Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) is currently running a consultation on what to do with 60 years worth of nuclear waste from British nuclear power stations and the weapons programme.It is vital that we put our views across. more...

HMS Vanguard is returning to Scotland at the end of a 3 year refit and nuclear refuelling at Devonport dockyard. It is expected to arrive at Faslane shortly. more...

Israeli nuclear whistleblower has been elected Rector by the students of Glasgow university. Help support him by circulating a petition to help him travel to Britain. more...

A large military convoy travelled across Scotland this week taking Trident nuclear weapons to and from Coulport near Helensburgh. more...

There were dramatic courtroom scenes as Trident Ploughshares pledger and Scottish Socialist activist Morag Balfour (31), from Glenrothes, added to the growing challenge to the failure of the District Court in Helensburgh to make its hearings accessible to people with disabilities.more...

Spain's socialist Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, has condemned his conservative predecessor for carrying out a "massive deception" in blaming the 11 March train bombings on Eta Basque separatists. Jose Maria Aznar's team also destroyed all computer records dealing with the bombings before leaving office, Mr Zapatero stated.more...

Anti-war protestors are celebrating a Court of Appeal ruling which held that the police acted unlawfully in detaining them for 2½ hours without arrests. The Court of Appeal ruled that police violated the Human Rights Act when they illegally detained 120 protestors en route to a demonstration at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire. Giving judgment, Lord Chief Justice Lord Woolf stated that, 'the passengers were virtually prisoners on the coaches for the length of the journey…[W]e are not persuaded that there were no less intrusive possible alternative courses of action here".more...

Anti-war activists blockaded a Weir Group Factory in Glasgow on 13th December because they are profiting from the war in Iraq. Six people lay chained together across one entrance and chained up the other gate, closing the facility for several hours.more...

We have done what they said was impossible; a motion of impeachment is now on the agenda of the House of Commons for the first time since the days of Napoleon and the Battle of Trafalgar - you can find it under the future business section though for procedural reasons only the top six supporters are listed. To mark this historic event, a meeting was held in the House of Commons for the MPs and public figures supporting the campaign. The actor Corin Redgrave, the musician Brian Eno, novelist Iain Banks and spy novelist Frederick Forsyth were all present.more...

From 17th to 21st June 2005, “Norwegian Youth against nuclear weapons” and “Ofog – for a nuclear free world” from Sweden invite you to an international disarmament camp in Fauske. By using nonviolent direct action we can stop the Fauske base and stand in the way of US military domination! Come and join us in nonviolent direct action against the Fauske base, or come and give essential support without risking arrest. The vital thing is to be there.more...

The Campaign against Depleted Uranium needs an enthusiastic part time campaign worker to promote its work from the office in Manchester. You must have experience of campaigning, good organisational ability and IT skills. 17.5 hours a week.One year contract. Salary: £18,000 pro rata (pay award pending) more...

On 1st December, an ad hoc group of Scottish citizens will hold a peaceful protest vigil outside the Finnish Consulate in Hanover Street, Edinburgh, between 1 and 2 p.m in protest against that country’s abuse of conscientious objectors. more...

12 foreign citizens are being detained indefinitely as "terrorist suspects" under the Anti-Terrorism Crime and Security Act 2001. They haven't been charged with any offence and they will not be tried. They have never even been questioned by police. The names of most of the men are secret. They have been held in jail under high-security conditions in cells best described as "concrete coffins". These conditions, combined with the hopelessness and uncertainty of their situation, place the men under intolerable psychological pressure. Several detainees have attempted suicide. To date, four of them have been moved from Belmarsh Prison - one to house arrest and three to Broadmoor Psychiatric Hospital - following the collapse of their mental health. more...

For the past year, four Belgian organisations (the ‘bankwatch organisation’ Netwerk Vlaanderen and the peace movements Forum voor Vredesactie, Vrede and For Mother Earth) have been running the campaign ‘My Money. Clear Conscience?’. This campaign denounced the fact that banks are using their clients’ money to invest in the weapon industry. During that year of campaigning, two reports were released. These reports show the investments in (controversial) weapon systems by the 5 most prominent international bank groups in Belgium. These reports caused a lot of commotion within the Belgian public, press and financial sector. At this moment, the campaign has already reached some very important and concrete results and we expect some new positive evolutions in the near future. more...

Bruce Kent has agreed to do a CND tour of the UK in February and March. Bruce will be available to meet people in your area and meet local dignitaries – faith leaders, politicians, celebrities - to encourage them and others to sign up to the Abolition 2000 NPT petition; Time to get rid of all nuclear weapons everywhere and encourage Mayors to take part in Mayors for Peace in the build up to the Non Proliferation Treaty conference. more...

A SOUTHAMPTON mum has sparked a major security alert at Whitehall after sneaking unchallenged into the heart of government offices. Giulia Gigliotti has today told how she spent 24 hours in police custody after breaching tight security at the Cabinet Office. more...

The trial of a Faslane protester who claims he was unfairly treated by being arrested at a Faslane was adjourned today at Helensburgh District Court when the Procurator Fiscal suddenly decided that in this instance he needed advance notice of the witnesses. more...

Local residents, shoppers and those who work near the building housing the headquarters of Lockheed Martin, wrote letters telling Lockheed Martin what they thought of their bloody business dealing in death. more...

The Guardian has reported that American scientists are developing hypersonic cruise missiles that will fly 10 times faster than current rockets, penetrate concrete armouring and could be launched from any site in the world. more...

On Saturday 13th November hundreds of protestors joined a demonstration in the centre of Glasgow to protest against the US attack on Falluja. more...

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has condemned Israeli police's re-arrest of Mordechai Vanunu as 'vindictive', and have called for his immediate and unconditional release. more...

Helen Steven and Ellen Moxley have won the Ghandi International Peace Award. more...

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