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Join Countdown to Zero screenings across the UK for Demand For Zero day

Posted by Louise Edge — 20 June 2011 at 12:16pm - Comments

A mind boggling $1,000 billion will be spent by the world’s nine nuclear-armed powers (including Britain) over the next decade on modernising nuclear weapons, says campaign group Global Zero - while UK budgets for social and environmental spending are slashed. 

But, you can do something: learn more about the issues by heading to your local cinema tomorrow, Tuesday June 21, to join the UK premiere of Countdown to Zero for Demand Zero Day.

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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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Developing 'usable' nuclear weapons

Last edited 23 June 2006 at 8:00am
The smaller nuclear weapons become, the more likely they are to be used in areas of conflict such as Iraq

The smaller nuclear weapons become, the more likely they are to be used in areas of conflict such as Iraq

'Usable' nukes
In the past five years the US military has developed an aggressive new nuclear doctrine: military documents such as 2002's Nuclear Posture Review and the 2005 Pentagon paper Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations revealed that that nukes may be used as 'weapons of first resort' as well as being integrated with conventional forces.

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The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

Last edited 23 June 2006 at 8:00am
Protesters march against against French nuclear testing in the South Sea Islands in 1995

Protesters march against against French nuclear testing in the South Sea Islands in 1995

Halt nuclear weapons testing
One of the most effective ways to deal with the nuclear danger is to stop nuclear testing, which is why Greenpeace and other anti-nuclear groups campaigned so vigorously for a ban on testing in the 1980s and 1990s.

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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-ranking delegation refused entry to nuclear research HQ

Last edited 13 June 2006 at 8:00am
The delegation of church officials and MSPs wait in vain outside the gates of Aldermaston

The delegation of church officials and MSPs wait in vain outside the gates of Aldermaston

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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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Briton arrested in NATO nuclear blockadeGreenpeace calls for "Nukes out of NATO"

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

A Briton was amongst 24 Greenpeace volunteers arrested this morning for blockading the main entrance to NATO with a replica B61 nuclear bomb and dropping a banner from the main NATO building roof calling for "Nukes out of NATO"1.

The protest coincided with the start of a NATO Defence Ministers meeting preparing for a debate on the future of NATO.

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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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Greenpeace launches campaign against Trident replacement

Last edited 13 October 2005 at 8:00am
13 October, 2005

The Government will make a decision on whether to build a new nuclear weapon system to replace Trident in this parliament.

This is a key decision for the UK and the world. A decision to build a new UK nuclear bomb will endanger the threatened Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty and Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the only international legally binding treaties covering nuclear disarmament. If they fall we face a breakdown of international co-operation leading to a nuclear free for all.

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