A series of events will take place around Scotland to mark the anniversaries of the use of the first atomic bombs against Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  These will happen in Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Helensburgh, Irvine, Kilwinning, Paisley and Rutherlen.  Some of these are linked to Scotland's Walk for Peace.  On 14 August there is a conference in Stirling. 

Three senior military figures have written to the Times calling on the Government to rethink Trident.  Field Marshall Lord Brammall, General Lord Ramsbotham and General Sir Hugh Beach say:
"Now that the Treasury has come clean on the Ministry of Defence having to bear the full cost of any successor to Trident, surely the time has come to recognise and accept that in a completely changed world we no longer have the military need for such a deterrent and certainly not for an 'all-sining, all-dancing' version as planned."