Blockade of UK Atomic Weapons Establishment

[TonyGosling]

Protests at AWE
10:50am Monday 27th October 2008
http://www.thisishampshire.net/news/hampshirenews/3793927.Protests_at_ AWE/
By Lucie Richards


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ANTI-nuclear protesters were out in force this morning to disrupt work at the Atomic Weapons Establishment sites in Aldermaston and Burghfield.
Peaceful protesters lay in the road chained and glued together with superglue at AWE entrances, including Tadley Gate, in Mulfords Hill, and in Paices Hill, to interrupt work on Trident nuclear warheads.
Over 200 [BBC say 'up to 100', police say 150, ed.] protesters displayed signs and banners with messages such as "Make Trident History", "No Trident Future" and "Nuclear Free Future", and sang anti-nuclear songs.
The blockade was organised by protest group Trident Plougshares and supported by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and a number of other peace and Christian organisations.
Officers from Thames Valley Police, Hampshire Constabulary and the Ministry of Defence turned out in large numbers, some on horseback, to deal with the disruption.
Daniel Viesnik, media liaison for Trident Ploughshares, said: "We had 150 people stay in a warehouse in Reading last night and more people joining us today with some people down from Scotland, Bradford and Wales, and some international protesters from Germany, Switzerland, France and Norway.
"We are opposed to the development of a new generation of warheads."
The perimeter roads around the Ministry of Defence site were clogged with morning traffic, with tailbacks stretching back along adjoining roads, including Heath End Road, in Baughurst, and the B3051.


Philip Gilligan, Littleborough says...
6:23pm Mon 27 Oct 08
Congratulations to these courageous protesters. This dangerous bomb factory should never have been opened. We do not need nuclear weapons of mass destruction. We need scientists to find ways to improve the planet, not to research more efficient ways to destroy it. Well done Trident Ploughshares! Well done CND!

http://www.thisishampshire.net/news/hampshirenews/3793927.Protests_at_ AWE/

[Disco_Destroyer]

Aparently 33 arrests if you believe the police that is a 3rd wow overkill?

[fish5133]

[Disco_Destroyer]

lol did they have to bring in a HGV

[outsider]

'The Middle East’s nuclear technology clock starts ticking':
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/middle-easts-nuclear-technology-c lock-starts-ticking/?

'The Middle East’s nuclear technology clock is ticking as nations pursue peaceful capabilities that potentially leave the door open to future military options.

Concern about a nuclear arms race is fuelled by uncertainty over the future of Iran’s 2015 nuclear agreement, a seeming US willingness to weaken its strict export safeguards in pursuit of economic advantage, and a willingness by suppliers such as Russia and China to ignore risks involved in weaker controls.

The Trump administration was mulling loosening controls to facilitate a possible deal with Saudi Arabia as Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu prepared, in an address this week to a powerful Israeli lobby group in Washington, to urge US President Donald J. Trump to scrap the Iranian nuclear deal unless the Islamic republic agrees to further military restrictions and makes additional political concessions.

Israel has an undeclared nuclear arsenal of its own and fears that the technological clock is working against its long-standing military advantage....'