CND Press Digest: Tuesday 30th January 2024

NATO / Europe

• Hungarian opposition seeks extraordinary session of parliament on Sweden NATO bid.

Middle East & North Africa

• The Guardian view on escalation in the Middle East: the region is inching towards the abyss.
• UK considering recognising Palestine state, David Cameron says.

AUKUS / Indo-Pacific

• Transparent Sea: AUKUS looks to AI, quantum in hunt for Chinese submarines.

Global Nukes

• Are we heading for World War Three? Experts give their verdicts to Sky News.

Nukes in Britain

• CND website: Documents unambiguously state ‘incoming nuclear mission’ to Britain.
• BBC: Plans progress to bring US nuclear weapons to Suffolk.
• A call has been made for nuclear weapons to stop being made at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) in Aldermaston.

UK Nuclear Energy

• Scottish Greens Energy spokesperson Mark Ruskell accuses Tories and Labour of wasting billions of pounds on nuclear technology.
• The key quotes from the Great British Nuclear (GBN) chairman’s World Nuclear News podcast interview covering future nuclear energy capacity in the UK.
• ‘It’s not a done deal and you are not alone’: anti-GDF campaigners pledge solidarity with South Holderness over nuclear waste dump plan.
• EDF’s Hinkley Point woes pile pressure on global nuclear push. Fight with London comes as the state company has been tasked to build six to 14 reactors in France alone

Nuclear Energy

• The head of Russian state nuclear firm Rosatom plans to meet International Atomic Energy Agency head Rafael Grossi in Russia in the middle of February, the Interfax news agency cited him as saying on Monday.

Best,

Pádraig McCarrick

Press and Communications Officer

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament