Greater Manchester & District Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

Nuclear Free Europe

GM & D CND is opposed to the Nuclear Weapons Policy of NATO and the UK.

Despite the unequivocal commitment to achieve nuclear disarmament under the 2000 UN NPT Review Conference,
no steps to disarmament were taken at the 2005 Review Conference.

The UK has been obliged to integrate its Trident fleet, which carries 1000 times the killing power of the Hiroshima bomb, into NATO. NATO also keeps US nuclear weapons at Lakenheath, a US military base in Suffolk. Nuclear warheads are routinely flown backwards and forwards to the US, putting British people at grave risk.
It is disturbing that the UK policy on nuclear weapons is governed by NATO's policies. NATO still holds a policy of retaining nuclear weapons and is prepared to use nuclear weapons first.
Nuclear weapons and the threat of their use are no protection against violent attacks. Their very retention is de-stabilising, a provocation to proliferation by other nation states.

In March 2005, Greater Manchester and District CND hosted a conference titled 'A Europe for Peace'. Jointly organised by Mouvement de la Paix (France), it provided a platform for a whole range of speakers and 150 participants from across Europe to discuss our opposition to the increasing militarisation of Europe. For more details, conference papers, and the agreed conference statement, click here.

We continue to work on this issue, liasing with other groups in Europe.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

We have a postcard available to send to your MP on this issue. Please contact us at gmdcnd@gn.apc.org and we'll send you a/some postcards. Or Click here for a pdf version

On 1st October 2006, there will be actions at NATO bases across Europe. CND will be mobilising to demonstrate at Lakenheath, the US nuclear weapons base in East Anglia. More information soon.