Dear all,

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

 Nukes in Britain

• Two people were hospitalised at an overnight fire at BAE System’s Barrow shipyard. Comment from CND on our website.
• The Morning Star’s coverage of CND’s upcoming protest at RAF Lakenheath.
• Declassified UK on the big Royal Navy projects sinking Labour’s budget - including the Dreadnought submarine and aircraft carrier programmes.
• The Canary covers CND’s comments on the Mutual Defence Agreement.
• Cost of maintaining decommissioned nuclear submarines. Graeme Downie, Labour MP for Dunfermline and Dollar, recently raised a question regarding the financial burden of maintaining decommissioned nuclear submarines at two key UK facilities: Rosyth and Devonport. Specifically, he inquired about the annual costs associated with these sites.
• Scientists for Global Responsibility statement calling for Britain to back a new UN study on the impacts of nuclear war.

Global Nukes

• Russia carries out second nuclear training exercise in two weeks. The nuclear drill comes as North Korea’s foreign minister Choe Son Hui arrived in Russia on Tuesday – landing in the far east of the country on the way to Moscow.
• Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation: How Koreans view nuclear issues: Lessons from my visit.

NATO / Europe

• Reuters: Ukraine and Russia are in the early stages of negotiations about potentially halting airstrikes on each other’s energy facilities, the Financial Times reported, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter.
• Dan Sabbagh on what a second Trump presidency would mean for NATO

UK Nuclear Energy

• £1.1bn of works included in Great British Nuclear’s SMR project pipeline.
• BBC: Work begins preparing Sizewell C roundabout site.

Nuclear Energy

• Rolls-Royce has sold a minority stake in its small nuclear reactor division to Czech power company CEZ. The Derby-headquartered giant has handed a 20 per cent share in Rolls-Royce SMR in a deal worth hundreds of millions of pounds.

AUKUS / Indo-Pacific

• UK Defence Journal: In a recent House of Lords debate, members discussed amendments to the UK-US Mutual Defence Agreement (MDA) and advocated for expanding the AUKUS alliance—a trilateral security partnership with Australia and the US—to include Canada, Japan, and South Korea.

Best,

Pádraig McCarrick

Press and Communications Officer

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament