Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament - an ICAN Partner

In an astonishing article published today in The Guardian, it was revealed that the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) at Aldermaston, Berkshire is being used by the US military to research its own nuclear warhead programme.

Aldermaston Women's Peace Campaign (AWPC)

A Ministry of Defence (MoD) byelaw banning camping outside the Atomic Weapons Establishment, Aldermaston, was quashed by the court of appeal today.

ICAN-UK is pleased to announce the following have all agreed to be patrons supporting our work to bring about a Nuclear Weapons Convention:

The international community must wake up to the threat of nuclear weapons proliferation, the Australian chairman of a new disarmament body says.

"The scale of the havoc and the devastation that can be wreaked by one major nuclear weapon alone puts 9/11 and almost everything else into the category of insignificance." - Gareth Evans.

Today marks the anniversary of the first British nuclear bomb test. Operation 'Hurricane' was detonated on Oct 3 1952 off the Monte Bello islands, Western Australia, with an explosive yield of 25 kilotons (the Hiroshima bomb yield was approximately 14 kT).

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With the 2010 review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in its sights, a new international nuclear disarmament commission led by two former foreign ministers is scheduled to begin work in October.

A petition has been prepared by Medact and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament urging the Government to abandon the Trident weapons replacement and promote a Nuclear Weapons Convention to facilitate the elimination of nuclear weapons by 2020.

Commemorations around the globe were held August 6 and 9, marking the 63rd anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively.

"... the only role for nuclear weapons is to be abolished."

- Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba, August 6, 2008.

Early Day Motion 72 asks the UK Government to work to achieve progress on multilateral negotiations for achieving implementation of a Nuclear Weapons Convention by 2020.

Find out here if your Member of Parliament has signed Early Day Motion 72.