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Sign the petition against Trident on Tony Blair's website

Posted by jamie — 17 November 2006 at 9:00am - Comments

Who'd have thunk it? The latest wheeze to help the PM get closer to his people is to have online petitions on the Number 10 website. Anyone can create a petition and encourage people to sign, and with the people from the excellent theyworkforyou.com and writetothem.com behind it, it could actually be worthwhile.

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Britain's new bomb programme exposed

Last edited 20 October 2006 at 8:00am
Publication date: 
20 October, 2006

Summary

On 24 September 1996, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) was opened for signatures. The treaty banned all nuclear tests - thus stopping new countries acquiring nuclear weapons, and existing nuclear-weapons states from developing new nuclear weapons. Alongside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), it was hailed as a major step towards nuclear disarmament.

At the time, the Labour government played a key role in pushing for the treaty and in urging other countries to support it.

This briefing reveals:

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Trident - the UK's nuclear weapons system

Last edited 23 June 2006 at 8:00am
With the Soviet Union gone, the veil of deterrence Trident was hiding behind vanished

With the Soviet Union gone, the veil of deterrence Trident was hiding behind vanished

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Greenpeace urges Brown not to be soft on global security

Last edited 22 June 2006 at 8:00am
22 June, 2006
Trident Cartoon: copyright Steve Bell 2004/All Rights Reserved: steve.bell@guardian.co.uk

Copyright Steve Bell 2004/All Rights Reserved: steve.bell@guardian.co.uk

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High level delegation turned away from gates of Aldermaston

Last edited 12 June 2006 at 8:00am
12 June, 2006

This morning a high level delegation of Church Leaders and members of the Scottish Parliament were refused a meeting by the Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) and turned away by armed police.

The delegation had formally requested a meeting with the Managing Director of AWE to ask why more than a billion pounds is being spent on new facilities and technical staff at Aldermaston despite the fact the government claim not to have made a decision on whether or not to replace Trident (1).

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Short shrift for Trident renewal

Posted by bex — 1 June 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

Clare Short at Hay on Wye festival

Former International Development Secretary Clare Short MP delivered a withering critique of the case for Trident replacement during the Greenpeace Debate on the future of UK nuclear weapons at Hay Festival earlier this week.

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Controversial nuclear weapons project gets council green light

Last edited 26 January 2006 at 9:00am
26 January, 2006

Greenpeace today accused the Government of steam-rollering the country into adopting a new generation of nuclear weapons after planning consent was given to a controversial new defence project.

Greenpeace believes the Orion laser, planned for the Atomic Weapons Establishment in Aldermaston, and other elements of the current £1 billion upgrade of Aldermaston's research and development facilities will be used to develop a new nuclear weapon - very possibly a new generation smaller, so-called 'battlefield' nuclear weapons that would be more likely to be used.

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