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WMD, Jobs & the Union
Last weeks announcement by the MoD that Scotland would now be the location for the entire nuclear submarine fleet couldn’t have come at a worse time. The Scottish people don’t Continue reading →
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Time Up for Trident & the Union
‘Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behaviour. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meathooks deep in the base of our brains…’ the peace activist Brian...
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The Myth of the Liberal’s Defense Policy
It is fatally flawed because he is trying to placate the deep-seated nuclearism of the British nationalist parties - that is, all the Unionist parties - while aspiring to don the mantle of progressive...
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The 30 Year Occupation
This year sees the thirtieth anniversary of the Peace Camp outside Faslane Nuclear Submarine Base on the Gare Loch. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Faslane, Scottish CND, Trident, WMD
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Scotland Loves Trident?
By Jamie Maxwell As George Eaton points outs in the New Statesman this morning, the opposition of the Scottish public to nuclear weapons “has long been regarded as one of Continue reading →
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Life During Peacetime
This is the first of a series of articles from Closer. The many dividends of living in a non-nuclear Scotland would include genuine security, democratic accountability and massive savings in costs. By...
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Questions About Faslane
As Treasury officials play ‘Think of a Number’ and the Lib Dems go into freefall, a bad day for the Better Together campaign just got worse. It seems that it isn’t just the Treasury that are just...
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Scotland and the Trident Question: breaking up the United Kingdom
It’s a lovely idea that ‘our very existence’ is dependent on hosting Weapons of Mass Destruction. Lesley Docksey reflects on the propaganda of British identity and war. “As you resume or take office,...
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Nuclear Weapons and the Language of ‘Power’
By Lesley Docksey Or should that be the language of ‘assumed’ power? The United Kingdom has been swamped by examples of sneering, belittling statements issuing from the Westminster bubble over the last...
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From National to Human to Social Security and Back Again
During Indyref 1 the parameters of the discourse on Scotland’s national security requirements was quite narrow. For some particularly those on the political right who were mainly, though not...
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A Referendum On Trident? – Defusing a nuclear bomb with the click of a wee...
This Friday Jan 22nd is the final day to respond to a Westminster parliamentary petition championing the case to “Hold a referendum to decide whether this country wants a nuclear deterrent.” Trident...
View ArticleA Ban Is Coming
On Friday 19th August in Geneva, Bill Kidd MSP and co-chair of Parliamentarians for Nuclear non-Proliferation and Disarmament (PNND), and Janet Fenton, Scottish CND Secretary and Women’s International...
View ArticleWound Up in the Weeds of Westminster
There’s a century long tradition of MP’s with radical intentions taking the train to Westminster and getting caught up in Westminster’s cultural and political weeds. Recently Scotland on Sunday ran an...
View ArticleTrident – a Strategic Weapon with a Tactical Achilles’ Heel
Generals, as the saying goes, are always fighting the last war. The same is true for admirals. Current naval doctrine is firmly rooted in the past. Our last war was the cold war between NATO and the...
View ArticleNATO and an Independent Scotland
The issue of nuclear weapons and an independent Scotland is one of the most hotly contested questions concerning independence. The Scottish National Party has made its opposition to nuclear weapons a...
View ArticleScottish Civil Authorities Failing to Assess Nuclear Weapon Convoy Risks
Following the publication of the Nukewatch Report Unready Scotland which highlighted the dangers of the the transport of nuclear weapons by road and the poor level of awareness and readiness at local...
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