Dear all,

Please find today’s press roundup below. Thank you all for your continued support

CND

• Coverage of CND’s rebrand in Design Week.

Nukes in Britain

• Daily Express: Veteran Dave Whyte blames nuclear bomb exposure for health issues and demands compensation.

Global Nukes

• Zia Mian writes in the Scientific American on the need for a UN study on the effects of nuclear war.
• ICAN’s Melissa Parke writes about the same issue for Pass Blue.
• The Atlantic Council: How the US can counter Russian and .Chinese nuclear threats in space.
• Fox News: China will double its nuclear arsenal to over 1,000 warheads by 2030, according to US intelligence.

Middle East

• NATO / Europe
  • Kyiv Post opinion: Ukraine and 2024’s nuclear and other realities. A year ago Putin accused Ukraine of trying to acquire nuclear weapons, it didn’t then, but it has now become a topic of conversation and even an ambition for some Ukrainians.
  • Reuters: No new limits on Ukraine’s use of US arms if North Korea joins Russia’s fight, Pentagon says.

  UK Nuclear Energy

  •  Campaigners are fighting to stop plans to turn 1,500 acres of land into a saltmarsh to compensate for the environmental impact of a nuclear power station.
  • https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgzwrgv71no?link_id=9&can_id=3728975d598a06451f917f94473842…
    
  • BBC reports on calls by the GMB union for the government not to make cuts at the Sellafield nuclear dump in Wednesday’s budget.
  • Lakes Against Nuclear Dump have put together a “tool kit” to help people campaign against the plans locate an underground nuclear dump in the Irish sea.
  • Lincs Online: East Lindsey District Council remains neutral on plans for nuclear waste site at Theddlethorpe.
  • The Telegraph reports on calls for Ed Miliband to support underground toxic waste disposal.
  • Meanwhile, EDF has started to turn some of the leftover materials from the closure of the Fessenheim nuclear plant in France into forks, saucepans and door handles.

  Nuclear Energy

  •  The Australian opposition’s obsession with nuclear power has been called a ‘smokescreen’ for burning coal and gas, officials from Geoscience Australia have told a parliamentary inquiry.

  AUKUS / Indo-Pacific

  • European Leadership Network: The non-proliferation considerations of nuclear submarines.

  Best,

   

  Pádraig McCarrick

   

  Press and Communications Officer

  Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament