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Safety Concerns at Hunterston B with Dr Ian Fairlie
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- Published on Wednesday, 16 January 2019 15:31
Technical Note of Safety Problems at Reactors 3 and 4 at Hunterston B Nuclear Power Station near Ardrossan, Scotland by Dr Ian Fairlie - 11th January 2019
60 Years of Scottish CND
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- Published on Monday, 10 December 2018 14:45
Scotland's Nae Place for Nuclear Weapons as Campaigners Celebrate 60 years of CND - an article published in the Daily Record this week provides a snapshot into Scotland: A Peace of History which launches this Saturday 15th December at the Mitchell Library from 12:30pm.
All welcome and refreshments will be provided.
Read the article here: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/scotland-now/scotlands-nae-place-nuclear-weapons-13701677
Stop Funding the End of the World - DBOTBS
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- Published on Friday, 30 November 2018 11:26
Stop Funding the End of the World - A Guide to Nuclear Weapons Divestment in Scotland was created by Don't Bank on the Bomb Scotland, a network of individuals campaigning for Scottish organisations and financial institutions to divest from companies that are involved in the production and maintenance of nuclear weapons and their delivery systems.
Scottish CND Push for Transparency after 505 safety incidents revealed at Faslane
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- Published on Monday, 19 November 2018 15:49
Scottish CND push for transparency around the Annual Nuclear Safety Reports from the Defence Nuclear Safety Regulator which have recently been censored by the Ministry of Defence.
The Ferret (an independent non-profit media cooperative in Scotland) published a letter from Stuart Andrew, defence minister yesterday revealing 505 safety incidents at the Faslane naval base in the last 12 years (over 200 in the last four years). Many of these incidents involved the Trident submarines which carry Britain's nuclear weapons.
The article states that 23 incidents were catergorised as having a 'high potential' for leaking radioactivity into the environment or within a submarine or building. Some 148 incidents were said to have a 'moderate potential for future release or exposure'.
Scotland: A Peace of History
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- Published on Thursday, 04 October 2018 14:21
We invite you to celebrate with us!
2018 marks the sixtieth anniversary of the formation of the Scottish ‘Council’ for Nuclear Disarmament. We want to use the occasion to showcase and celebrate our history, whilst also looking to our future. To this end, we are creating a timeline of important actions and events, both from within and out with our movement, spanning over eighty years! We have gratefully received funding from the National Lottery’s Heritage Lottery Fund for the timeline project. We hope the final results will be nostalgic, inspiring, and educational.
Launch Event
Sat 15 Dec 2018 12-4pm Mitchell Library, Glasgow
- 12:30pm - Informal opening ceremony with some brief speeches and some music
- 1:00pm - 4:00pm - An opportunity to view the exhibition which celebrates the 60th anniversary of Scottish CND.
Scottish CND members, supporters and people from the wider Scottish Peace Movement are very welcome to attend the opening and view the exhibition on Saturday 15th December 2018. More information can be found on the Facebook event.
Alarm as UK backs US Move to Ditch Key Nuclear Weapon Treaty
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- Published on Monday, 22 October 2018 09:53
Scottish anti-nuclear campaigners have reacted with anger and alarm at UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson's unequivocal backing for the US intention to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF).
The INF is a bi-lateral treaty between the US and Russia and bans the deployment of nuclear weapons with a range between 300 and 3400 miles. The INF was agreed by Reagan and Gorbachev in 1987 in mutual recognition that weapon systems like the US Pershing and the Soviet SS 20 dangerously reduced the threshold for all-out nuclear war. Intermediate-range nuclear weapon systems were the main focus of disarmament movements in the 80's, such as Greenham Common.