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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)
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.
