Dear all,

Please find today’s press roundup below. Thank you all for your continued support and have a lovely weekend.

Nukes in Britain

• A new blog post is on the CND website, where Kate Hudson writes about Stuart Hall’s contribution to CND.
• CND’s response to the military spending increase announced in Wednesday’s budget.
• Babcock have outlined plans for a new secure compound which will be needed for the next stages of the Submarine Dismantling Project in Rosyth.
•  An investigation is underway into what caused Wednesday’s fire at BAE’s nuclear shipyard in Barrow.
• War on the Rocks looks at the potential for fresh Anglo-French nuclear cooperation.

Global Nukes

• The Guardian reports on calls by campaigners for Britain to back today’s UN resolution that would launch a new expert study into the impacts of nuclear war. At present, Britain, France, Russia, and North Korea seem poised to vote against. More on CND website.

Middle East

• The Atlantic: How Israel could be changing Iran’s nuclear calculus. Newly threatened, the Iranian regime might pursue a bomb to try to salvage its national security.

NATO / Europe

•  The Bulletin: Why Ukraine’s nuclear revival refuses to die.

UK Nuclear Energy

•  East Anglian Daily Times: Campaigners opposed to the new Sizewell C nuclear power station have slammed chancellor Rachel Reeves for continuing to back the project in her budget.
• Nucnet: Great British Nuclear (GBN) has issued an “invitation to negotiate” to the four companies that were chosen for the shortlist of the UK government’s small modular reactor (SMR) selection process.
• BBC and City AM on tech firms turning to nuclear power in order to power AI.

AUKUS / Indo-Pacific

• The Guardian: How will the outcome of the US election affect Australia, AUKUS and our region?
• The Times reports on how the recent fire at BAE could have knock on effects for AUKUS devlivery.

Best,

Pádraig McCarrick

Press and Communications Officer

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament