Yorkshire campaign for nuclear disarmament
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Links to other Related Web Sites
  • National CND - news and views from the National Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
  • West Midlands CND
  • Colchester CND
  • Scottish CND - including pages on Trident, Faslane, Dounreay, Scottish Parliament and lots more.
  • Not War.Net - Peace Group link exchange
  • The Nuclear Disarmament Party of Australia
  • NucNews - a compendium of news articles about nuclear, plutonium, uranium, radioactive, arms-sales, and wars.
  • Nuclear Free Local Authorities Secretariat
  • Nuclear Convoys - Top secret military convoys carrying nuclear warheads travel regularly up and down the country - between the bomb factory at Burghfield in Berkshire and Trident nuclear bases in Scotland and RAF bases in East Anglia. No radiation warning symbols are carried and neither the public nor local authorities are warned of their movements.
  • Menwith Hill - The Menwith Hill spy base, near Harrogate in North Yorkshire, is run by the US National Security Agency (NSA). The NSA was set up by Presidential decree in 1952 without any debate in the US Congress.
  • Fylingdales - probably the most significant strategic installation in Yorkshire and of direct relevance to plans for the United States’ Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) and Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI - "Star Wars") systems.
  • Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases by Anni and Lindis - Up to date information on the protest at Menwith Hill and other US bases in Yorkshire and the UK.
  • Trident Plougshares 2000 - A group of UK activists who will initiate peaceful disarmament until 1/1/2000 or until the government commits itself to immediately disarming Trident.
  • Campaign Against the Arms Trade
  • NGO Committee on Disarmament - the homepage for the NGO Committee on Disarmament, the principal service organization for Non-Governmental Organizations (research institutes, activist/advocacy groups, volunteer organizations, professional associations) involved with disarmament in the United Nations context.
  • Refuelling Peace - a group monitoring US military planes at Shannon Airport.
  • South Asians Against Nukes - set up soon after the Nuclear tests conducted by India on May 11, 1998 to bring together information resources for peace and anti-nuclear activists from all over South Asia. The site also contains links to websites of the local and International Anti Nuclear and Peace campaigns.
  • Indian Scientists Against Nuclear Weapons
  • Abolition 2000 - set up in April 1995, during the first weeks of the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review and Extension Conference, activists from around the world recognized that the issue of nuclear abolition was not on the agenda. Activists met together to write the Abolition 2000 Statement that has become the founding document of the Abolition 2000 Network. Over 1,000 organizations in 76 countries have now signed it and are actively working in ten working groups to accomplish eleven points listed in it.
  • Project Ploughshares Home Page .
  • Peace Movement Aotearoa - the national networking organisation for those concerned about peace and related issues in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
  • Women for a Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific (Australia) - International Peace Bureau, Oceania Representative, PO Box 172, Annandale 2038, Australia.
  • Faslane Peace Camp - started in 1982 with the arrival of a group of anti - nuclear protesters who pitched camp on a small strip of land opposite Faslane's Gareloch in Dunbartonshire Scotland. This was the site chosen by the UK government for it's recently commissioned Polaris nuclear defence system. Now the base houses the UK Trident nuclear fleet. The peace camp is in danger of being removed.
  • Four trillion dollars and counting ... by the Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project Committee, Stephen I. Schwartz, Editor.
  • World Court Project - Peace through law: a new path towards nuclear disarmament.
  • Centre for Defence Information Home Page.
  • Nuclear Free Local Authorities - the NFLA began in Manchester with a declaration of the City Council on 5 November 1980 to work to eliminate the threat of nuclear weapons. The City declared itself a 'Nuclear Free Zone' and called on other local governments in the North West of England to do the same.
  • The NGO Committee on Disarmament - complete texts of selected UNGA disarmament resolutions (all resolution texts are subject to amendment).
  • Peace Through Reason website - Convert the War Machines!
  • Dying of shame - by Felicity Arbuthnot article from the New Internationalist. For the people of Iraq, normality died in August 1990. Today, in formerly high-tech hospitals, built with petro-dollars and staffed with people who have completed postgraduate training in Britain, Canada and the US, surgery is frequently carried out without anaesthetic; the simplest items, from painkillers to antibiotics, are unavailable. Scanners, X-ray machinery and incubators lie idle for want of spare parts. To witness the effect of the United Nations embargo is to live with images that haunt. To walk into any hospital ward is to see a look in the eyes of parents of a desperately sick child, which can be instantly translated: one is from outside, so possibly important, can perhaps wave a magic wand, help. Then the look dies...
  • Taking the Pulse of the US Nuclear Arsenal - from BASIC - includes a wealth of information on the current status of US nuclear systems, warheads, the weapons complex, and nuclear planning; designed to provide a detailed glimpse of the current plans of the arsenal, including warhead testing programs, nuclear exercises, and related materials.
  • MoJo (Mother Jones) Website on US Arms Sales Around the World
  • Peace Wire - inc. Professor Michael Wallace on the "global nuclear priesthood"; Steven Staples on "Confronting the Military-Corporate Complex" in the campaign ssection.
  • NucNews - articles etc on what's going on in the world NOW concerning nuclear, plutonium, uranium, and radioactivity issues. Mostly from the Washington Post and Times, New York Times, USA Today, AP, UPI, Reuters.
  • The Nuclear Atlas - the US anti-nuclear group the Atomic Mirror site for quick retrieval of information pertaining to a/o world-wide military and commercial nuclear facilities.
  • Global Peace Walk 2000 - from San Francisco to Washington, DC, and to the New York United Nations 55th anniversary, as part of the global campaign to abolish nuclear weapons. The general goal of this project is to instill the prayer for "Global Peace Now!".
  • The GreenScissors99 website - inc. People Against Radioactive Dumping (PARD).
  • A page of nuclear weapon quotations , put together by Larry Hinds. e.g. "With the collapse of the Soviet Union there was a dispersal of weapons of mass destruction. This now constitutes quite simply the most dangerous threat of our times." - Margaret Thatcher.
  • Millennium Debate - whose aim is to involve public participation and raise awareness about energy and environment issues (over 2,500 links).
  • The Critical Military Technologies List - a major set of publications from the Department of Defense that are downloadable using Adobe Acrobat. Part 2, Section 5 has a major area on nuclear weapons technology.

MENWITH LINKS:

Campaigning

About the NSA & Echelon

Espionage/secrecy

"Son of Star Wars" Role

UK & European Parliaments

By-Laws Judgments


Fylingdales Related Web Sites

Other Pages on Militarisation of Space

 
Star Wars, NMD, BMD, TMD etc.


The Nuclearisation of Space including the Cassini Mission