ICAN’s new report calls the UK Government to account for aggressive nuclear weapons policies and continued funding of Trident.
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The world now has an international treaty making it illegal for ratifying states to possess any nuclear weapons. Yet the UK continues to keep and modernise its nuclear weapons at huge cost and risk to life, and is increasingly seen as out of step with the rest of the world. In “A Safer World – Treating Britain’s Harmful Dependence on Nuclear Weapons”, we build on the international significance of the Treaty, and re-examine the arguments for and against the UK possession of nuclear weapons.
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A group of leading doctors and healthcare professionals have called on Britain to work towards multilateral nuclear disarmament. In a letter to the Daily Telegraph published on 25 July, 15 doctors and health professionals wrote that Britain should “take a lead in making the world safer” by working towards multilateral disarmament. The letter’s signatories include Fiona Godlee, editor in chief of The BMJ, Richard Horton, editor in chief of the Lancet.
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AN ANTI-NUCLEAR protester being held in a Scottish jail will have her appeal against special bail conditions heard today. Edinburgh’s Sheriff Appeal Court will hear the case of Trident Ploughshares founder Angie Zelter, 66, who was arrested after a blockade of the Coulport nuclear base on Loch Long earlier this month. Ms Zelter, who was arrested with five other activists, remains in prison after refusing to undertake not to go within 100 metres of the Scottish nuclear weapons bases at Coulport and Faslane. Seventy-nine-year-old retired teacher Brian Quail also refused to accept the condition and remains in custody. At an initial hearing in Dumbarton, Ms Zelter argued that, while she has no intention of lying in the road again, she has every right to protest at the bases. Ms Zelter said that the Trident nuclear weapons system is illegal as it is an indiscriminate weapon that, if used, would cause the deaths of millions of civilians.
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