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ICAN believes that Nuclear Weapons are a red line election issue, and that our next Scottish-based MPs will represent that view. That is why all candidates must agree to sign the ICAN Parliamentary Pledge for the United Nations Treaty on The Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Scotland is the launchpad and the bomb store for…

WHY THE TPNW MUST BE A RED LINE IN THIS ELECTION Remember Polly Toynbee and “Forget Trident: Labour needs to focus on issues that matter.”? This attitude is however not restricted to partisan Guardian columnists – it persists in the standard reference to “bread and butter”, “the daily lives of ordinary people”, etc., etc., so…

My sister has been watching a Cold War series on TV and we were reminiscing about these days. She was 10 during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis and I was in sixth year at Aberdeen Grammar. Jeannie remembers that our parents were in a state of fear, but at the time she did not know…

International humanitarian law looks threadbare at the moment, not least because the cynicism behind much of the “rule-based international order” rhetoric from major world players has been further exposed by Gaza. Yet our very survival, in the face of existential threats, depends on the sincerity, agreement and co-operation which is its very basis, so it…

Second Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW in New York in November (2MSP) See full information at https://www.icanw.org/tpnw_meeting_of_states_parties.The nuclearban.scot website (re-launched) will be regularly updated. Campaigners committed to public meetings, writing blogs and generally spreading the message after returning to Scotland will be very useful! There will be an ICAN Campaigners Meeting on the 26th…