CND Press Digest: Thursday 9th May 2024

Nukes in Britain

• CND press release on the upcoming national day of action against the return of US nuclear weapons to Britain.
• The East Anglian Daily Times picks up on Saturday’s protest at RAF Lakenheath.
• Independent Catholic News: Christian CND and Anglican Pacifist Fellowship will be joining others at the CND-organised event this Saturday to protest the return of US nuclear weapons to the UK.

Global Nukes

• Secrets and Spies: A Nuclear Game, review: BBC Two’s documentary series about three Cold War-era double agents is full of thrilling tales of deception and narrow escapes.

CND

• The May issue of CND’s Campaign magazine is out now and available to read online.
• Westmorland Gazette: Kendal protesters call to end UK supply of arms to Israel.

Nuclear Energy

• Republicans urge Biden to prevent French work with Russian nuclear power company. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republicans-urge-biden-prevent-french-work-with-russian-nuclear-pow…
• China has nearly tripled its nuclear capacity in 10 years. It took the US nearly 40 years to add the same nuclear power capacity as China added in the last decade.

NATO / Europe

• Politico, FT, and Times coverage of Xi’s visit to Serbia, where he criticised the NATO bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade 25 years ago.
• Reuters: Russia warns of ‘enormous danger’ if NATO sends troops to Ukraine.
• EuroNews: NATO plans to defend space but will have to work with the commercial sector for its tech.
• Unherd: David Lammy defends Donald Trump on NATO.
• Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg visited Kyiv on Monday for talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the state of the war and the future of NATO’s support to Ukraine.
• Kyiv Independent: Hungary’s FM opposes NATO’s long-term Ukraine aid plan, calls it ‘crazy mission’

Middle East & North Africa

• Al Jazeera: Iran warns it will change nuclear doctrine if ‘existence threatened.’ Adviser to Khamenei says Iran will have ‘no choice’ if nuclear facilities targeted by Israel.

AUKUS / Indo-Pacific

• US bill would require US to coordinate Japan AUKUS role with UK and Australia.

Best,

Pádraig McCarrick

Press and Communications Officer

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament