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USA using AWE Aldermaston for its Nuclear Warhead Programme

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. Read more »

Peace Women defeat UK Ministry of Defence in Freedom to Protest case

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. Read more »

ICAN-UK patrons

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

Non-proliferation commission meets in Sydney

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.

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