CND Heddwch 22 spring 2000

Description

'Heddwch' is the supporter magazine for CND Cymru, the Welsh Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, published roughly quarterly from 1991 to the present day.
Contents
Page 1:
• ‘Breaching the peace’ - Cartoon.
Page 2:
• Flyingdales: a first strike target in Yorkshire - The Flyingdales early warning radar site is being redesigned to protect the US.
• Missile Defense is no defence - The US National Missile Defense system threatens global security.
Page 3:
• Kirsty Williams, Assembly Member for Brecon & Radnor supports Nuclear Free Wales
• The ideal and the possible Henry Richard (1812-1888) - Honouring the Secretary of the Peace Society and MP, Henry Richard.
• Calling for a commitment to peace and justice - Card designed by Wendy Lewis.
• Don Arnott - A Tribute
Page 4-5:
• Caledonia Dreaming: Brian Quail, Vice Chair of Scottish CND and Trident Ploughshares 2000 activist discusses Trident from a Scottish perspective.
Page 5:
• CND Cymru members arrested at Faslane
Page 6:
• Campaign Updates:
• The UN Culture of Peace and Non Violence: proclaimed in Wales - A day of events and entertainment marked the Launch of the UN’s ‘Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non Violence for the Children of the World’.
• Campaign launch at Hinkley: A new campaign to shut down Hinkley nuclear power station.
• Trident Ploughshares News - Ploughshares 2000 actions throughout November.
• The Lord Advocate Refers Greenrock Rulings - Lord Advocate of Scotland lodges official referral papers of the “Trident Three”.
Page 7:
• Barrow - Two Trident Ploughshares activists arrested at Barrow-in-Furness in November.
• Aldermaston Women in Court - Trial of Rosie James and Rachel Wenham delayed.
• Helen John does it again - Jury backs granny’s anti-nuclear graffiti (Guardian)
• Menwith Hill - Peace campaigner Lindis Percy needs donations to re-amend a Writ to stop work at Menwith Hill.
Page 8:
• The New Agenda Coalition and the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty
• The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
Page 9:
• UN Resolution 1284: Keeping Iraq in Madeline Albright’s box? - Disagreement in the Security Council over the new UN Resolution to suspend sanctions on Iraq.
• Trecwn - Rumours that Trecwn may be used at the British Nuclear Waste Store.
Page 10:
• News round-up:
• BNFL losses too great to meter at Wylfa - Two closed nuclear reactors at Wylfa nuclear power station are losing £2.5million a week.
• Coming soon to a quiet afternoon in Wales near you: new low flying bombers - Tornado aircraft upgraded to be deadlier and stealthier.
• BNFL: uneconomic, dangerous and economic with the truth - BNFL should stop reprocessing plutonium at Sellafield.
• Camp Bondsteel - the USA in Yugoslavia - A US military base is under construction in southern Kosova.
• Acting President of Russia - posturing? - Acting President Vladimir Putin has lowered the nuclear threshold.
Page 11:
• Nuclear Free New Zealand - an anti-nuclear Prime Minister - Helen Clark is elected as Prime Minister of New Zealand and intends to pursue nuclear disarmament.
• Nuclear legacies in the Pacific - France is leaving Mururoa and Fangatufa but leaves behind a legacy of nuclear bomb testing.
• Bactrians not bombs at Lop Nor - Nuclear test site at Lop Nor in China has been turned into a Bactrian camel sanctuary.
• The tragedy continues at Tokaimura - Hisashi Ouchi has died after the nuclear accident at Tokaimura plant.
Page 12:
• A letter to Wales from Mordechai Vanunu
• Israel has 200-300 nuclear weapons
• My nuclear nightmares continue - Nuclear expansion and the nuclear legacy.
Page 13:
• “Studying war no more” on Mynydd Epynt - Changes to the sign at Mynydd Epynt are finally being discussed.
• Memories of a newly nuclear free Wales February 23rd 1982 - Celebrating the 18th Anniversary of the first Declaration of Nuclear Free Wales.
Page 14:
• Diary Dates
• Join CND Cymru Postal Slip
• CND Cymru Contacts
• An Apology
• Heddwch Contacts