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Should Scotland be in NATO ?
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- Published on Monday, 20 August 2012 15:10
SNP CND have produced a briefing which argues that the SNP should remain opposed to NATO. Scottish CND have published a short Question and Answer sheet on NATO and Nuclear Weapons.. SNP CND held an excellent conference on this issue Saturday 25 August in Glasgow. Please sign the Scottish No to NATO coalition statement and contact your elected representatives of all parties to find out whether they support NATO.
Wales is no place for Trident
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- Published on Wednesday, 15 August 2012 09:03
The Herald on 14 August said that Trident might go to Wales, if Scotland became independent. But a letter from Scottish CND, printed in the paper,argues that none of the alternative sites in Wales or England are viable. The graphic shows how the sites proposed for Polaris in 1963 would be too close to the oil and gas terminals at Milford Haven.
Photos of Hiroshima/Nagasaki events
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- Published on Monday, 13 August 2012 13:59
Events took place across Scotland to remember the victims of the first atomic bombs.
French Trident at Faslane
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- Published on Friday, 03 August 2012 07:25
Faslane Peace Camp has reported that a nuclear-armed Triomphant class submarine arrived at the Faslane naval base yesterday (Thursday 2 August). This is the first visit by the French equivalent of Trident to Britain. It comes three years after the collision between Le Triomphant and HMS Vanguard on 3-4 February 2009. Both submarines were underwater at the time of the accident.
Hiroshima/Nagasaki Anniversary
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- Published on Tuesday, 31 July 2012 10:39
Events will be held across Scotland to mark the anniversary of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the first atomic bombs. There will be gatherings in Glasgow [change of venue], Edinburgh, Bridge of Allan, Aberdeen, Dundee, Irvine, Kilmarnock, Rutherglen, Inverness and Paisley.
SCND evidence to Commons committee
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- Published on Thursday, 19 July 2012 10:02
Scottish CND coordinator, John Ainslie, gave evidence on Trident and Scottish independence to the Scottish Affairs Committee Video and Transcript
SNP and NATO
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- Published on Tuesday, 17 July 2012 14:35
The SNP annual conference in October will debate a resolution which says that an independent Scotland should be a member of NATO, but subject to the removal of Trident.
Scottish CND welcome the SNP’s announcement that they would seek the speediest safe removal of nuclear weapons from Scotland. We recently published a report, Disarming Trident, which we shows that this could be accomplished within two years. As there is no alternative site for Trident, the removal of these weapons from Faslane would result in nuclear disarmament for Britain.
However, Scottish CND do not support the United Kingdom or an independent Scotland being members of NATO. The alliance is a creature of the Cold War and an anachronism. The Strategic Concept of the alliance says that so long as nuclear weapons exist, NATO will remain a nuclear alliance. While there are members of the alliance who are actively working for nuclear disarmament, they have, so far, been unable to effect a dramatic change in NATO’s approach to these Weapons of Mass Destruction.
(CND No to NATO Campaign; SCND handout on NATO; Report on Chicago conference)