Dear all,

Please find this week’s news round up below. Thanks again for your continued support and have a lovely weekend.

 Britain

• Anonymous messages, secret codes and uranium: how Sheffield’s big nuclear secret leaked out.
• The alleged threat, believed to have been a prank, is said to have triggered a full emergency response on the HMS Vanguard. https://archive.ph/eFbwm
• Faslane is set to get a £250 million upgrade following a visit by ministers to the nuclear base on Wednesday.

Global Nukes

• Most Turkish people say Turkey should obtain nuclear weapons in new poll.
  Although the government has no intention to acquire nuclear weapons, Israeli attacks on Iran have spooked the public.
• The Bulletin: French nuclear weapons, 2025.
• The bomb (part 1): were nuclear weapons inevitable? Our podcast on science and technology. The first episode of our four-part series on the past, present and future of nuclear weapons.
• The beginning of the nuclear bomb: An oral history. The men who set off the nuclear age Prospect: The new nuclear arms race. Recent escalations between Israel and Iran, and India and Pakistan are a warning: the systems that once protected us are failing.
• ​​Civil society leaders call to halt, reverse arms race. Along with urging arms control, the statement encourages organized opposition to the deployment of more nuclear weapons by any state.
• Democracy Now: Trinity, 80 years later, still threatens a “hard rain’s a-gonna fall”.

Iran

• Only one Iranian nuclear site destroyed in US strikes. American intelligence suggests while Fordow facility was largely destroyed, attacks against sites in Natanz and Isfahan were less effective.

NATO / Europe

• Reuters: Patriots to move to Kyiv ‘as quickly as possible’, says NATO top commander.
• Stephen Lillie on Donald Trump’s arms deal with NATO – cartoon.

Nuclear Energy

• The Tories are attacking the use of environmental impact assessments to challenge nuclear projects.

Best,

Pádraig McCarrick

Press and Communications Officer

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament