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December 24, 2017

Security Council further tightens sanctions against North Korea

The UN Security Council has imposed new sanctions on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, increasing the depth of measures imposed on the country in the wake of its continued nuclear and ballistic weapons programme.
December 20, 2017

CND comments on Trident budget news

CND has reacted to reports that the cost of Trident may be removed from the MoD and borne by central government.
December 13, 2017

Faith leaders call on UK Government to sign Nuclear Ban Treaty

Leaders from faiths across the UK have called on the British Government to affirm the new UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
December 8, 2017

Anti-nuclear activists to celebrate Nobel Peace Prize at MoD

Anti-nuclear activists will gather outside the Ministry of Defence on Saturday December 9 2017, to celebrate the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to ICAN, the global network which campaigned for a United Nations nuclear weapons ban treaty.
December 6, 2017

Churches call for support on treaty banning nuclear weapons

Five churches have released a video calling for people to act in support of the ground breaking UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
November 16, 2017

Safety fears grow as UK's nuclear bases expand

The total cost of replacing Trident looks set to rise, with major new developments at nuclear bases, while fears are growing about safety.
November 14, 2017

Pope Francis strengthens condemnation of nuclear weapons

“The threat of use [of nuclear weapons], as well as their very possession, is to be firmly condemned”, Pope Francis told 400 clergy, diplomats, campaigners and Nobel laureates gathered in the Vatican on 10-11 November.
October 13, 2017

Nobel Peace Laureate condemns President Trump's Iran decision

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons has condemned President Trump's announcement on the Iran nuclear deal.
September 27, 2017

UN chief calls for a world free of nuclear weapons

The only world that is safe from the use of nuclear weapons is a world that is completely free of them, Secretary-General António Guterres said yesterday as the United Nations marked the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.
September 21, 2017

Treaty banning nuclear weapons opens for signature at UN

The world’s first legally-binding treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons opened for signature yesterday at UN Headquarters in New York.