Posted by bex — 10 October 2005 at 8:00am
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Greenpeace cyberactivist Ray Duff wrote to his local MP, Tory leader Michael Howard, for his views on the issues of renewing the UK's nuclear arsenal. We print the full text of Mr Howard's letter below.
Comments from the US military branches to the Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations, which outlines how and under what circumstances nuclear weapons might be deployed by the US military.
We now have an extraordinary opportunity to deal with the threat of nuclear weapons. There is no military conflict between the great economic and technological powers. Indeed, they cooperate on a daily basis on trade, investment, health and many other issues. Moreover, the late 1980s and most of the 1990s saw the creation of a positive circle in which citizen action, political initiatives, disarmament treaties and independent verification reinforced each other.
Greenpeace opposes nuclear power not only because it is an expensive and hazardous way to produce electricity but also because it is also a key way for countries to gain access to the technology and materials needed to develop nuclear weapons.
Summary The Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction was launched at the G8's Kananaskis Summit in Canada in 2002. A key part of the program was the disposition of surplus Russian weapons plutonium via MOX fuel.
Greenpeace is urging the UK and other countries to adopt a new draft treaty to control and outlaw fissile materials - the essential materials for nuclear weapons. The draft treaty text will be presented to the UK and other ambassadors attending the United Nation's Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) meeting in New York today (4th May).
Greenpeace today urged the government to bring HMS Trafalgar back to port and withdraw all Trafalgar and Swiftsure class 'hunter killer' submarines for urgent safety checks, following reports that HMS Trafalgar is suffering up to 270 different safety defects.
