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  • September 23, 2009
    Brown cuts nuclear submarines as pressure grows to scrap Trident

    The Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to respond to growing public pressure by announcing a cut in the number of Trident nuclear submarines from four to three. Campaigners welcomed the news but insisted that the cuts must go further.

  • September 11, 2009
    Churches back nuclear-free Africa

    Following recent action by Africa, a majority of the world's countries have now banned nuclear weapons from their national territory for the first time, says Jonathan Frerichs. The churches have played an important role in this.

  • July 8, 2009
    World churches leader hails US and Russian nuclear weapons cuts

    The United States' and Russia's public commitment to cut back their stockpiles of strategic nuclear weapons has been welcomed and urged forward by the World Council of Churches.

  • June 17, 2009
    Japanese concerns over possible new North Korea missile test

    Japanese sources claim that North Korea may be planning to launch another missile, a day after US President Barack Obama called the country’s recent actions a “grave threat” to international security.

  • June 9, 2009
    New defence secretary faces further Trident nuke challenge

    New UK Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth has faced a call to delay plans for the Trident nuclear weapons system until MPs have chance to debate them, with a motion asking for a discussion of the decision in Parliament.

  • May 27, 2009
    Latest North Korea statement on ‘truce’ adds to weapons tension

    The secretive hard-line communist regime in North Korea has reacted angrily to global condemnation of its recent nuclear weapons test, declaring that its ‘truce’ with South Korea may be over and that it will not back down.

  • May 26, 2009
    North Korea test shows need to abolish all nukes, says world church body

    At a time when the international community is re-kindling the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons, the North Korean nuclear test is a source of real concern, says World Council of Churches general secretary Rev Dr Samuel Kobia.

  • April 22, 2009
    Scrap nukes to boost budget, say Scottish peace groups

    Campaigners from Scotland have been proposing to UK chancellor Alistair Darling an alternative budget which does not include spending on nuclear weapons - arguing that that there are massive savings to be made.

  • April 1, 2009
    Churches tell NATO of the need for a nuclear weapons-free world

    A world without nuclear weapons is not only possible but more secure, leaders of NATO have been told by a broad coalition of national, regional and global councils of churches.

  • March 18, 2009
    Church welcomes Brown's plans on nuclear weapons

    The Methodist Church has welcomed news that Gordon Brown has pledged to consider cutting Britain’s nuclear arsenal. The UK will begin to scale back its stockpile of nuclear warheads if Russia and the US agree to new reductions, the prime minister said yesterday.