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Office of Nuclear Regulation Meeting re: Hunterston B
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- Published on Monday, 19 August 2019 13:14
This is an update from Dr Ian Fairlie about the meeting that he and Sean Morris of Nuclear Free Local Authorities have had with the Office for Nuclear Regulation about Hunterston Nuclear Power Station in Ayrshire. Radiation Risks working group within Scottish CND have been doing some work around this topic and have recently released a short report which can be found on our website and printed copies available in the office.
The Doomsday Machine Review - David Peutherer
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- Published on Friday, 16 August 2019 14:19
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017 [2018 in UK]
From Dresden to Doomsday
In the early 1960s Ellsberg worked for the RAND Corporation on how to avert a nuclear exchange between the Soviet Union and the United States, was a consultant to the United States Department of Defense and the White House, and drafted Secretary Robert McNamara's plans for nuclear war. He had access to top secret documents, senior military personnnel and other senior officials. He now writes and lectures about the dangers of the nuclear era.
Disarming Nuclear Scotland Conference - Helensburgh CND
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- Published on Friday, 09 August 2019 08:45
The conference this year explores some of the main campaigning work that will enable us to achieve a Scotland mercifully free of all nuclear armaments.
In the morning session Janet Fenton provides an update on Scottish CND's priority areas of work such as the UN Treaty Ban (TPNW), while Gordon Dickson and Jean Anderson outline our efforts to work with and through trusted political partners such as the SNP and the Greens. Martin Docherty will reiterate the SNP commitment to a speedy removal of Trident given earlier this year at the party's Spring Conference. The addience will have an opportunity to question all speakers throughout the day.
Scottish CND join Hiroshima Fast
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- Published on Wednesday, 07 August 2019 16:07
SCND’s Iona Soper, Emma Cockburn, Janet Fenton and Brian Quail, and are undertaking a fast in commemoration of the atomic attack’s by the US Government on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6th and 9th August 1945. They act as part of an international initiative. Their statements will be issued, one for each day and published on http://www.nuclearban.scot
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemorations
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- Published on Tuesday, 16 July 2019 12:47
People across the world say never again. Every year, groups across Scotland - and the globe - hold memorial events for Hiroshima Day on the 6th August and Nagasaki Day on the 9th August. Details below:
Roadmap for Trident Removal
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- Published on Wednesday, 10 July 2019 14:57
SNP CND have published a Roadmap for Trident Removal. This is a detailed map of how an independent Scotland can get rid of Trident.
Campaigners Reclaim UK Nuclear Base for Peace on Anniversary of TPNW
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- Published on Monday, 08 July 2019 11:35
On the second anniversary of the day the United Nations agreed to ban the bomb, Trident Ploughshares, in order to challenge Faslane's legitimacy and highlight the progress that has been made since a huge majority of the world's states took the ban decision, used spray paint to re-decorate the main entrance of the base for peace and blocked the base's other entrance.