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  • September 13, 2017
    CND welcomes TUC plan to secure jobs after Trident

    Anti-nuclear weapons campaigners have welcomed a decision by Trades Union Congress 2017 to call on Labour to establish a Shadow Defence Diversification Agency ahead of the next general election.

  • August 5, 2017
    Hiroshima Day events around the UK

    Events have been arranged around the UK to mark the anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.

  • January 20, 2017
    Protesters to demand 'stop Trump's arms race' at US Embassy

    The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is set to protest outside the US embassy today to demand an end to Donald Trump's arms race, coinciding with his presidential inauguration. Thousands are expected as part of a series of co-ordinated protests.

  • October 31, 2016
    Ban nuclear weapons by law next year says historic UN vote

    By a three-to-one margin, the United Nations is authorising negotiations to ban nuclear weapons in 2017.

  • October 21, 2016
    Ecumenical cooperation brings hope for a nuclear ban treaty

    Pax Christi International, together with the World Council of Churches and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, are working with one voice in their attempts to ensure global support in the UN General Assembly later this month to take forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations.

  • October 14, 2016
    Interreligious call for nuclear weapons ban

    Governments should capitalise on years of growing concern and negotiate a ban on nuclear weapons next year, the World Council of Churches said in an inter-religious call at the United Nations on 12 October.

  • October 5, 2016
    International Court of Justice turns down Marshall Islands plea

    The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has commented on today's judgement by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the United Kingdom’s nuclear disarmament obligations. Judges threw out a case brought by the Marshall Islands that said the UK, in failing to get rid of its nuclear weapons, was in breach of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

  • August 5, 2016
    Prayer and hope mark anniversary of atomic bombings

    This year, 6 and 9 August mark the 71st anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two Japanese cities destroyed by atomic bombs with a combined death toll estimated at more than 225,000 people.

  • July 18, 2016
    Trident WMDs remain immoral, wasteful and redundant

    It is almost certain that the Westminster Parliament will this evening approve the expenditure of what will apparently be £31 billion immediately, and some £205 billion in the long run, on a renewe

  • July 18, 2016
    Trident: Real security or playground politics?

    Owen Smith, the absurdly self-described “unity candidate” for the Labour leadership, will be one of many Labour MPs voting in favour of the Trident nuclear weapons system today. Indeed, he has already gone further. Yesterday, he gave an explicit “yes” to the question of whether he would be willing to deploy nuclear weapons as Prime Minister.