Dear all,

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

Nukes in Britain

• The Morning Star’s coverage of CND’s protest at RAF Lakenheath.
• The Morning Star also has a farewell interview with Kate Hudson, following her retirement as CND General Secretary. https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/two-decades-of-fighting-for-peace?link_id=1&can_id=37289…
• ITV report on last week’s fire at the BAE shipyard in Barrow, with the initial investigation finding it had “little impact” and the plant is now “full operational.”

Global Nukes

• ICAN: UN approves new study on effects of nuclear war.
• Benar News: Pacific push sees UN launch first nuclear war impact study in 35 years.

NATO / Europe

• Foreign Affairs calling for a NATO that is less reliant on the US.
• Jonathan Beale writes about what the outcome of the US election could mean for NATO.
• Atlantic Council NATO defence industrial strategy.
• Germany’s Olaf Scholz will meet NATO’s Mark Rutte in Berlin today, with North Korean troops in Ukraine expected to be the main topic for discussion. https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-scholz-to-meet-nato-chief-rutte-in-berlin/a-70677942?link_id=9&ca…

UK Nuclear Energy

• Nuclear Consulting Group: Launch of papers on unachievable nuclear programme.

Nuclear Energy

• TEPCO progressing in melted fuel extraction from Fukushima nuclear reactor.
• Japanese nuclear reactor that restarted 13 years after Fukushima disaster is shut down again.
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: What it will take to restart decommissioned US nuclear plants. A primer.

AUKUS / Indo-Pacific

• Three years on, there is still no compelling argument,strategic or otherwise, for Australia’s acquiring eight Virginia-class nuclear-­propelled submarines (SSNs). Nor is there any compelling calculation of the large lick of funding – $368bn and more – that the program will soak up. https://johnmenadue.com/the-doomed-conceit-of-a-political-aukus/?link_id=14&can_id=3728975d598a0…

Best,

Pádraig McCarrick

Press and Communications Officer

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament