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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)
Join the 2000+ who say No Nuclear Weapons Here
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- Published on Sunday, 17 June 2012 07:00
Over 2,000 people have added their pin to the map at naenuclear.org to say that Scotland is no place for nuclear weapons. If you haven't yet done so, please join them.
Disarming Trident
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- Published on Sunday, 17 June 2012 06:13
A new report from Scottish CND points out how Scotland could be free from nuclear weapons in two years. Report (3Mb pdf)
Writing in the Sunday Herald, Rob Edwards reports that the Scottish Government have warmly welcomed Scottish CND's timeline for disarming Trident.
If not now, When ?
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- Published on Saturday, 09 June 2012 14:23
Thirty years after the Peace Camp was established at Faslane, campaigners unfurled a banner from Finnieston Crane in Glasgow. Part of 30 days of action at the Peace Camp.
Trident on Loch Lomond
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- Published on Friday, 08 June 2012 15:41
Nuclear weapons are regularly transported on the A82 along the shores of Loch Lomond. The route to the Couport nuclear base takes these convoys North from Balloch and then along the military road through Glen Fruin which was built to enable to expansion of the nuclear base for Trident. The photograph, taken from Loch Lomond Youth Hostel, shows a Trident convoy travelling South. Help us to get rid of these Weapons of Mass Destruction - add your pin to the map at naenuclear.org
Save the Humans
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- Published on Wednesday, 09 May 2012 09:05
Young people from Ban All Nukes generation (BANg) held a protest outside St Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna to draw public attention to the NPT Prep Com meeting taking place in the Austrian capital.