CND Press Digest: Monday 27th November 2023

War In Ukraine/NATO

• Reuters: The Kremlin said on Friday that NATO’s desire to have a military analogue of the Schengen Zone in Europe to allow the alliance’s armed forces to move around freely to counter Russia had ratcheted up tensions and was a cause for concern.

Israel-Palestine

• The New Arab: What do we know about Israel’s nuclear weapons?
• The Nation: The looming threat of Israel’s nuclear option.

Nuclear Weapons 

• Why is the US ramping up production of plutonium ‘pits’ for nuclear weapons?
• Hibakusha, NGOs to attend UN meeting on nuclear weapons.
• Scientific American call for a world without nuclear weapons.

AUKUS

• Conservative Home: How AUKUS is helping Western democracies square up to China in the Pacific

UK Nuclear Energy

• Rolls-Royce boss Tufan Erginbilgic is expected to urge the government on Tuesdayto give its full backing to the firm’s small modular reactor technology.

Nuclear Energy

• Renew Extra Weekly look at a report by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, outlining the poor prospects for nuclear power which claims that “nuclear industry is now so dysfunctional it may have no future in the UK without a concerted policy and regulatory effort.”

Iran Nuclear Deal

• IAEA head says the barring of several nuclear inspectors by Iran is a ‘serious blow’ to monitoring.
• That’s at this opinion in the Jerusalem Post calls for the US to bomb Iran. 

North Korea

• ‘Nuclear tinderbox’: Kim’s threats put North Korea on wrong side of history.

CND

• MSM has a slideshow following the history of CND.

Best,

Pádraig McCarrick

Press and Communications Officer

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament