Scottish disarmament campaigners are getting ready for the week of high-level and civil-society events to tackle the urgent threat of nuclear weapons at Nuclear Ban Week New York, 2025. Some will be reporting the events here and on their own websites and in the press, some will be submitting working papers and some will be attending…
Scottish campaigners are shocked but not surprised that the BAS has advanced the hand of the clock this year . https://www.thenational.scot/news/24895238.anti-nuclear-campaigners-call-action-doomsday-clock-moves
We banned the bomb on the 7 July 2017, the day that the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted at the United Nations. The next step was to get enough UN Member States to sign and ratify it in their own countries,, and when the first fifty states states did that, on…
A seminal report written by Dr Rebecca Johnson and published by the Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy and the Center for Nuclear Disarmament has been published. This report analyses the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and theimplications for UK and global security. It has been updated to reflect recent developments affecting nuclear…
The 22nd of January 2022 marks one year since the entry into force for the TPNW. Alongside the events planned to commemorate the occasion, this anniversary presents an opportunity to look back on the different ways in which Scottish partner organisations celebrated the entry into force last year. CNDWhilst numerous in-person plans to mark the…
To celebrate the first anniversary of the Entry Into Force for the TPNW, the following events are being hosted/organised by Scottish CND from January 20th – 24th 2022. Thursday 20th January Following PMQs at 11.00amDebate in Scottish Parliament on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear WeaponsMotion submitted by: Bill Kidd, Glasgow Anniesland Scottish National PartyThe debate on…
It was announced on November 24th that Germany will be participating as an observer in the First Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. As one of five countries used by the US to site their nuclear arsenal, the fact that Germany is resisting US dominance and calling out…