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RAE STREET reports on the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’s virtual AGM
DESTRUCTION: A photograph of a mushroom cloud from a British nuclear weapon test near Christmas Island (Kiriimati) in the central Pacific in the late 1950s, is featured in an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London in 201

LAST Saturday the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament held a successful online AGM under the banner, “NHS Not Trident.” 

Resolutions that were passed included “Covid-19 and Trident,” calling on the government to redirect the current £205 billion spend on replacing Trident towards health and welfare services.  

On a “New Cold War With China,” it was agreed to prepare a briefing and simple fact sheet about the US-led aggression towards China.  

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