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PLANS for celebrations are underway to mark the 60th anniversary of the publication of an article which led to the founding of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).
Author and playwrite JB Priestley’s piece on the dangers of nuclear bombs appreared in the New Statesman magazine on November 2 1957.
In it he wrote: “Alone we defied Hitler; and alone we can defy this nuclear madness. There may be other chain-reactions besides those leading to destruction; and we might start one.”
Campaigns against nuclear weapons on the Clyde, financial backing for arms firms and rising militarism are converging with solidarity for Palestine, as Scotland’s peace movement builds momentum ahead of the 2026 Holyrood election, says ARTHUR WEST
From nuclear bomb storage in the 1950s to surveillance flights over Gaza today, the Cyprus base has enabled seven decades of machinations so heinous that Starmer once blurted out ‘we can’t tell the world’ what goes on there, writes NUVPREET KALRA
SOLOMON HUGHES explains how the PM is channelling the spirit of Reagan and Thatcher with a ‘two-tier’ nuclear deterrent, whose Greenham Common predecessor was eventually fought off by a bunch of ‘punks and crazies’