Sunak to waste more money on Britain’s nuclear weapons

“Just weeks after the dust has settled on a budget that did nothing to address the real problems that we face, the government has made yet more public money available for Britain’s nuclear weapons industry and is unusually linking nuclear power and nuclear weapons in the same breath. It’s good that the prime minister is owning up to the linkage, but the suggestion that they are needed for both national and energy security is a complete fallacy. “As the long-delayed Hinkley Point C shows, nuclear power is neither a timely nor cost effective way of generating electricity. It is extremely cynical of the government to use a genuine issue like energy security to greenwash nuclear power and nuclear weapons. The additional funding pumped into these will inevitably find its way into the pockets of investors through government contracts financed by the public.”

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Notes from CND conference 10/11/2018 session :shape of things to come

Ted Seay , Stuart Parkinson , Steven Rose TS: New military technology re shape global security situation. Use of algorithmic warfare (computer automated war) and ‘Drone swarms’ such as the attack on Russian base in Syria . 13 drones with bombs carried out the attack. There are hyper velocity technology used in weapons making it impossible to intercept an attack. Use of Artificial Intelligence in creating autonomous weapons. These are all worrying developments making the security of our world even more uncertain. Therefore the claims that nuclear weapons offer stability through ‘deterrence’ is even more weak if not obsolete. TS: “US presidents come and go, but US military policies are hardly affected. The real culprits are the US Dep of Defence (the military), department of energy (the urge to dominate energy sources) and government agencies working hand in glove with large weapons manufacturing corporations. Plus the corporations themselves” A regional nuclear ...

BAN Bromley Borough CND newsletter 2023

BAN 2023 Created by Ann Garrett, Edited by Rob Clark Up Coming Events April 26th - Chernobyl Day stall and vigil - Bromley Market Square 12 00 - 3pm August 3rd - Hiroshima Vigil - opposite the Churchill Theatre 12 - 3pm - poems and statements Sept 21st - Peace One Day event at Bromley Friends Meeting House 7 -10pm . Stalls, speaker, films, poetry and music. November 10th - White Poppy Ceremony 10.30 - 11.00 a.m. at Bromley War Memorial [SE London Peace, Justice and Solidarity Network] speeches, poems and music. 1st Thursday of every month - Close Guantanamo demo outside parliament - 3pm. All Guantanamo events TBC. Zoom meetings take place each month. Every Saturday at 12noon. Free Julian Assange - vigils at Belmarsh .NTAG/Kick Nuclear meetings at 162 Holloway Road 7pm or on Zoom. To view the 2023 newsletter click HERE

Nuclear exploitation: how uranium mining harms communities – CND and Beyond Nuclear webinar

To produce nuclear power, uranium has to be mined. But this activity proves devastating for the communities – very often of Indigenous people – working in and living near the mines. As well as immediate and ongoing harms, contamination from uranium mining activity persists for tens of thousands of years, leaving a dangerous legacy for current and future generations. Click for the Link

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