CND Press Digest: Monday 13th May 2024

Nukes in Britain

• East Anglian Daily Times: RAF Lakenheath protest to make airbase nuclear-free zone.
• East Anglia Bylines: Nuclear power and nuclear weapons – two sides of the same coin.

Global Nukes

• The Mirror: Military experts reveal number of nuclear weapons on the planet – and the answer is terrifying. Analyst Annie Jacobsen, author of the newly-released book Nuclear War: A Scenario, has revealed the number of war heads owned by nuclear nations including the UK, US and Russia.
• BBC: The ‘suicide mission’ to foil Hitler’s atomic bomb

Space

• The detonation of even a single nuclear weapon in space could destroy a significant proportion of satellites in orbit around Earth: UK statement at the UN General Assembly.

UK Nuclear Energy

• BBC: Sizewell C ’absolutely not inevitable’ says campaigner.
• The Guardian: South Korea’s state-owned nuclear developer has discussed building a multibillion-pound power plant in Wales with the UK government, it has emerged.
• Bidding to open for £600m contracts to build Nottinghamshire fusion energy plant near Retford.

Nuclear Energy

• Beyond Nuclear on the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
• Grunge: Mistakes that caused the Chernobyl disaster.

NATO / Europe

• Reuters: Medvedev says aim of nuclear exercises is to work out response to attacks on Russian soil.
• New York Times: Satellite images reveal where Russian nukes could be stored in Belarus.
• The Guardian: Putin removes Sergei Shoigu as Russia’s defence minister. Russian president says successor to Shoigu, who has been defence minister for years, will be Andrei Belousov, an economist.
• The Spectator: What the Shoigu reshuffle means for Putin’s war machine.

Middle East & North Africa

• The Morning Star: Campaigners demand answers after Tugendhat claims British-supplied arms are ‘not likely’ to be used in Rafah.

AUKUS / Indo-Pacific

• The Guardian: Australia risks being ‘world’s nuclear waste dump’ unless AUKUS laws changed, critics say.

Best,

Pádraig McCarrick

Press and Communications Officer

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament