Dear all,

 

Please find this week’s roundup below. Thank you all for your continued support.

 

CND Weekly Digest: Friday, 22 November 2024

 

 

Ukraine

• CND’s Sophie Bolt responded by using a new hypersonic ballisic missile in Ukraine.

Future War

• Drone Wars report on the growing threat of hypersonic weapons.

Nukes in Britain

• The Nuclear Free Local Authorities have written to the Defence Secretary and the Head of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency over recent revelations that radioactive tritium discharges from nuclear subs operating in the Clyde are on the increase.
• Defence Secretary John Healey has launched an investigation into whether there are long lost or hidden documents that reveal military chiefs secretly monitored the health of men who witnessed nuclear bomb tests in the 1950s.
• The Guardian’s review of Britain’s Nuclear Bomb Scandal. You can watch back on BBC iPlayer here.
• UK’s nationalised nuclear warhead company refuses Canary FOI over public spending.

Global Nukes

•  We need to prevent a new era of nuclear weapons testing.

Middle East

• The UN atomic watchdog’s 35-nation Board of Governors passed a resolution on Thursday again ordering Iran to urgently improve cooperation with the agency and requesting a “comprehensive” report aimed at pressuring Iran into fresh nuclear talks.
• Labour avoided full arms embargo on Israel to protect special relationship. Banning F-35 supplies to Israel “would undermine US confidence in the UK”, defence secretary John Healey privately warned colleagues.

Radiation

• Why iodine pills are not a silver bullet to protect against nuclear radiation.

NATO / Europe

• Swedish households receive chilling leaflet urging them to prepare for war and grim nuclear attack.

AUKUS / Indo-Pacific

• Minister opens new office ‘critical’ to AUKUS submarine programme. Maria Eagle also said the Government does not foresee any capability gaps as it retires older Royal Navy vessels. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/aukus-minister-government-glasgow-royal-navy-b2652077.html?lin…

 

Best,

 

Pádraig McCarrick

 

Press and Communications Officer

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament