We are excited to announce the participation of Scottish CND in a timely and important joint webinar, hosted in collaboration with UK CND.
On Thursday 23rd of July at 7pm, we invite scientist Hugh Irving to present his recently-published work on the effects of a potential nuclear strike on Faslane.
Hugh Irving is a PhD researcher in materials engineering at the University College Dublin. He publishes this work at a time in which the UK government has put all bets on omnicide weapons, with nuclear spending being the biggest pillar of the recent Defence Investment Plan and the UK nuclear programme soon to consume a full quarter of the country’s military spending.
While this enormous expenditure of resources is justified and sanitised with the language of “deterrence,” this webinar will be important in cutting through such abstractions and highlighting that the UK government’s nuclear facilities in Scotland are in fact targets.
The webinar will also feature speakers from CND and Scottish CND. Whilst we expect to have a diverse and hopefully international audience, we are keen that there be plenty of Scottish attendees, so that our perspectives are well represented in the Q&A session.
You can register your attendance for this webinar for free today!
We would also like to promote an excellent ecumenical initiative by Justice & Peace Scotland, who are organising a commemorative vigil at Faslane on Saturday 1st August.
Last year’s ecumenical vigil received BBC news coverage and drew a substantial crowd of attendees. The proximity of this year’s event to the 81st anniversaries of the Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombings means it serves as an appropriate opportunity to commemorate the terrible first use of nuclear weapons in conflict.
Key information about this event can be found on the attached flyer below. Justice & Peace encourages those who would like to book seats on the buses from Edinburgh and Glasgow to contact office@justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk and express their interest.
A reminder that, to get to Faslane independently, you can travel by train to Helensburgh Central then get the 316 bus to HMNB Clyde.
