Radioactive dust would be far from settled. Starting 3rd October 1952 the UK contaminated indigenous lands in Australia & the Pacific, leaving generations of harm for local people & witnessing service personnel+ cancer risk up for all @atomiclabrats @tilmanaruff @nuclearban #TPNW
'Military spending' creates fewer jobs for every million invested than socially useful and creative industries. A quarter of this spending is for nuclear weapons, an insane world-threatening waste. @nuclearban @GCOMS_UK @Gov
Allowing US bases in the UK = complicity in war crimes + + ramps up existential nuclear threat + puts servicemen who rape outside UK jurisdiction theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i…
If the UK scrapped spending on nuclear weapons systems it would free up billions for real defence and security. #TPNW
In the UK? Now is the time to (re)join @CNDuk or Scottish CND. Help us remove us bases and nuclear weapons. – at Manchester, England
ALT Yesterday in Hiroshima, civic groups held a photo action in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome — a reminder from the city that knows nuclear horror first-hand: never again. And as a respons to President Trump's threats to bomb Iran’s “power plants” and civilian infrastructure — language that could logically include nuclear-related facilities, with potentially catastrophic consequences for civilians.
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🔴NEW: A group leading the push to overturn Scotland’s opposition to new nuclear power says it is “independent” and “grassroots”. But we found links between campaign and a lobbying firm representing EDF, which owns Torness nuclear station
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ALT Torness nuclear power station beside green farmland and a fenced path on Scotland’s coast. Text reads: “Grassroots Scottish nuclear campaign has close links to industry lobbyists.”
Security Council, Saturday @antonioguterres laid out why US and Israeli strikes on Iran were illegal. Without acknowledging this, country after country only condemned Iran. Shame on European leaders lacking @sanchezcastejon courage to defend essential international law.
A bomb-any-regime-we-choose approach exemplifies why the world needs nuclear weapons to be banned. Non nuclear states advance the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The US ignores Non-Proliferation Treaty disarmament obligations & nuclear Israel never accepted any.
Scotland's @JohnSwinney supports @nuclearban & noted "it is essential that all nations abide by the international rules-based system. The events of the last few days do not suggest to me that the United States and Israel have done this" US-nuke-addicted PM is never that clear.
Threatening nuclear death to every living thing as so-called defence, security or safety gets no less suicidal, genocidal and ecocidal, whether or not Britain could actually do this without the USA. #TPNW
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1/5: The new line from "deterrence" enthusiasts (most of whom will have vociferously supported the Trident programme until yesterday) is:
We need a 'truly' independent nuclear weapons programme.
But bear in mind that...🧵
Excellent @UNHouseScotland and Irish Consulate @GDonovanJerry event with retired Ambassador Donoghue, @rhyscrilley,@cpduncanson, @Janetfenton prompted repost -#TPNW An independent Scotland more like Ireland on the world stage? thenational.scot/politics/25…
