CND Press Digest: Tuesday 26th March 2024

NATO / Europe

• A new essay on the SIPRI website about NATO as its 75th anniversary approaches.
• Poland demands explanation from Russia after a missile enters its airspace during attack on Ukraine.

Middle East & North Africa

• UN Security Council passes resolution demanding Gaza ceasefire - as US abstains.
• Will the UN ceasefire resolution stop Israel’s war on Gaza?
• Netanyahu cancels Washington visit after US abstains on Gaza ceasefire vote at UN.
• UN expert accuses Israel of ‘genocide’ in Gaza. Albanese says there are clear indications that Israel has violated three of five acts listed under UN Genocide Convention.

AUKUS / Indo-Pacific

• The Guardian: Former Aussie PM Malcolm Turnbull writes on why his successor’s decision to ditch the French submarine deal in favour of AUKUS means Australia has lost the control of its own destiny.

Nukes in Britain

• Footage of Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt’s trip to the Barrow shipyard.
• The Herald: SNP attack £200m extra for nuclear deterrent and industry.
• CND’s report on Sunak’s nuclear announcement and visit to Barrow.
• The writer of this Telegraph piece on the building of the Dreadnought fleet seems to forget that Britain has had multiple failed tests of Trident: “It was meant to demonstrate Britain’s undisputed role as one of the world’s nuclear powers. But as Grant Shapps, the Defence Secretary, came aboard HMS Vanguard to watch the refitted submarine test-fire a dummy Trident missile, the unthinkable happened: it failed.”
• PM declares ‘critical national endeavour’ to secure UK nuclear industry’s future.
• The Independent: UK’s nuclear industry to get £200m boost amid defence concerns, Rishi Sunak announces.
• The Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has also unveiled the MoD’s Defence Nuclear Enterprise Command Paper.
• UK Defence Journal: The United Kingdom has confirmed that it is developing a replacement UK sovereign nuclear warhead for its Trident missiles.
• i newspaper: Nuclear threat to UK worst it’s ever been and won’t improve for a decade. The UK will upgrade its fleet of four nuclear submarines, carrying Trident missiles, to bolster the country’s deterrent against hostile states

UK Nuclear Energy

• Sizewell C has bought the freehold of the land earmarked for a new nuclear power station for an undisclosed sum.

CND

• Decades of Dissent: Anti-Nuclear movement explored in LSE Library exhibition.

Best,

Pádraig McCarrick

Press and Communications Officer

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament