Eight activists from the Trident Ploughshares group are due in court in Reading on 23-24 April. This follows an action at Atomic Weapons Establishment Burghfield, which resulted in the entrances being blocked and those participating being arrested. AWE Burghfield is the Berkshire facility where the UK’s Trident nuclear warheads are […]
Monthly archives: March 2019
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On Tuesday 12 March Christian CND gathered in London to visit diplomats from NATO Member States to discuss the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). We managed to visit 25 Embassies despite the terrible weather, talking about the need for NATO members to take a lead on nuclear […]
On Tuesday 12 March Christian CND visited Downing Street to hand in our petition calling on the government to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. More than 1000 of you have signed the petition, with many taking a copy to church to ask members of your congregation […]
On Ash Wednesday, 6 March, Christian CND joined Pax Christi and others for the annual Ash Wednesday Witness outside the Ministry of Defence in central London. Despite the poor weather many people turned out to join the witness, which has been held on Ash Wednesday for over 30 years. The […]