With funding yesterday confirmed for a new nuclear power station in Suffolk, CND's science advisor, Dr Ian Fairlie, questions whether we actually need this development and the technology in general.

"Given a UK Treasury strapped for cash, the unsolved problem of radioactive nuclear waste, the spectre of nuclear proliferation, and it’s being a target in future wars, many wonder why the government is so fixated with nuclear power.

Well, the answer was supplied in 2023 by the Rishi Sunak administration which admitted that the main reason for its continued eye-watering financial support for civil reactors was that they provided needed technical support and expertise for the government’s nuclear weapons programme."

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"We are living through a nuclear arms race," writes CND Campaigns Director Sara Medi Jones. "Last week’s announcement by US President Donald Trump that the US plans to restart nuclear testing is the latest development which should set off alarm bells: we need to change course and prioritise a different kind of international dynamic before we accidentally stumble into nuclear war."

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Alternative Peace Remembrance
9 November 11am
Bonn Square, Oxford
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‘Why US nukes on UK soil are bad for Britain’ – Manchester public meeting
13 November 6:30pm
Cross Street Chapel, Cross Street, Manchester M2 1NL.
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Scottish CND AGM

15 November 10am-4pm
Renfield Centre, 260 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 4JP
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'Nurses not Nukes' - eve of Budget protest

25 November 6pm
Outside Downing Street, London

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