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nuclear weapons

August 6, 2013

Hundreds gather in Tavistock Square to remember atomic bomb victims

Hundreds of people will gather in Tavistock Square today (6 August) to remember victims of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
April 15, 2013

Police arrest 47 at peaceful blockade of Trident nuclear base

At least forty-seven people, including several Christians, have been arrested while peacefully blocking entrances to the Faslane nuclear base in Scotland.
April 1, 2013

Aldermaston protestors call for scrapping of Trident

Thousands of protestors have gathered at the Atomic Weapons Establishment in Aldermaston, calling on the government to scrap Trident and cancel its replacement.
March 21, 2013

Let Scotland lead the way on nuclear weapons

While I’ve been out campaigning for the Scrap Trident Coalition, a fairly commonly voiced objection to the elimination of nuclear weapons from Scotland is that; “It’ll cost jobs at Faslane.”
March 8, 2013

Religious and civic voices stress humanitarian concern over nuclear weapons

Civil society representatives and governments have met from 2 to 5 March in Oslo, Norway, to address the humanitarian effects of nuclear weapons.
February 26, 2013

AWE: launch of direct action campaign against nuclear weapons

A new campaign will be launched at the Reading Civic centre on 27 February which will target the Atomic Weapons Establishment in Aldermaston and Burghfield.
December 13, 2012

Disarming Trident: Nonviolent Direct Action in the USA and Scotland

On Friday 21 December 2012, starting at 4.45pm, St John's Church in Edinburgh (at the corner of Princes Street and Lothian Road, EH2 4BJ) hosts an Edinburgh Peace and Justice Centre event with Ploughshares activist Fr Bill Bichsel and Leonna O’Neill of Faslane Peace Camp. This will be followed by a Christmas Party.
October 22, 2012

50 years on, lessons of Cuban missile crisis have not been learned, says CND

50 years on from the Cuban missile crisis, we have still not learned the lessons of this grim period of human history, says CND.
October 22, 2012

Thousands march for alternatives to austerity

Over 150,000 people have marched in London, Glasgow and Belfast for alternatives to the UK government's cuts agenda.
September 4, 2012

A tale of two court cases

Four Christians have gone to the European Court of Human Rights to argue that Christians as a group are being discriminated against in the UK, notes Symon Hill. But it is one thing to argue for free expression, quite another to argue for the right to discriminate against same-sex couples. Meanwhile, other Christians have witnessed to their faith by preparing to go to prison for a protest aganist nuclear weapons - but that case has received far less attention.