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Faslane Bus Announcement, New START, Ukraine Webinar

As you hopefully know already, Scottish CND will be demonstrating at the Faslane Naval Base on Saturday 14th March this year, to raise the salience of the nuclear threat to Scotland in advance of the national election in May.

We are happy to announce that all supporters and members can now book seats on buses to the demonstration!

There will be three buses travelling to Faslane on the morning of Saturday 14th March:
 
Glasgow Bus: Leaves from North Hanover Street, near Costa Cafe, at 11am. Please arrive at least 15 minutes before departure.
 
Edinburgh Bus: Leaves from Charlotte Square, city centre, at 10am. Please arrive at least 15 minutes before departure.

Click here to book a space for the Glasgow or Edinburgh buses. We are inviting registrants to make a non-obligatory donation, if they can, to help cover costs. Contact scnd@banthebomb.org with any queries!

Aberdeen Bus: Leaves at 7:50am on Skene Street behind His Majesty’s Theatre. Please arrive at least 15 minutes before departure.

The bus from Aberdeen will make three stops along the way to Faslane in Dundee, Perth and Stirling:

  • Dundee Pickup between 9:35am and 9:40am at the Kingsway Retail Park Bus Stop DD3 8RX
  • Perth pickup between 10:16 and 10:21 from Perth Broxden Park and Ride PH2 0PX
  • Stirling pickup between 11:03 and 11:08 from Stirling Castleview Park and Ride FK9 4TW
Supporters from Aberdeen and these areas should contact CND North-East Scotland at cndabdn@gmail.com to register their interest for this bus from the north, which will be dropping off at the end of the day also.
We strongly encourage supporters to register for whichever bus suits them best. Help us make a strong statement against nuclear weapons before the Scottish election in May. 
 
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We are entering an era which can reasonably be described as a New Cold War. The last remaining bilateral nuclear arms treaty between the US and Russia – New START – expires this Wednesday 4th of February. New START limited nuclear weapons deployment of these countries and established verification measures to ensure compliance.

Expiry means that, for the first time in 50 years, no nuclear arms agreement constrains the actions of the two most heavily armed nuclear states. This is a recipe for a perilous arms race.

New START was signed in 2011 by Presidents Obama and Medvedev. It was extended for 5 years in 2021. However, in 2023 Russia withdrew from the verification elements of the treaty, citing US involvement in the Ukraine war, but claimed they would abide by its limits on nuclear weapons deployments.

At the end of 2025, the Kremlin made an offer to extend the treaty for 1 year, to allow time for more detailed negotiations. There has reportedly been no response to this offer from Washington.

The neglect and undermining of international nuclear arms agreements by the leaders of nuclear states is an important factor fuelling the world’s instability today. The answer is not building more nuclear arms, but instead reviving the arms control architecture that keeps the world, and Scotland, safe.

The time is now. If you haven’t already, join SCND this year in our campaign against the nuclear arms race.