Press Releases & Updates 2004

Lockheed Martin is the world’s largest maker and exporter of arms, and is actively engaged in developing the UK’s next generation of nuclear weapons at Aldermaston. By doing so they are violating the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, signed by the UK.

Their UK headquarters are hidden away in an unmarked building in Carlisle Place, a quiet residential street near Victoria. Many local residents and even some employees from other companies working in the same building, did not know of their presence there.

Protesters from Trident Ploughshares drew attention to Lockheed Martins whereabouts with banners, arrows, fake missiles and by distributing leaflets. Many people stopped to write letters to Lockheed Martin telling them what they thought of them. The envelope containing the letters was delivered to 22 Carlisle Place later in the day.

Lyn Bliss, 53, a member of the group said, "This company have been involved in making parts for Trident (the four submarines that carry Britain’s nuclear weapons with a destructive power equal to 1,000 Hiroshimas) and now they are planning to develop the next generation of nuclear weapons at Aldermaston. It is ironic that this company whose business is to kill and maim people are housed in Cardinal Manning House. Cardinal Manning promoted peace not the death and destruction that this company is making its profits from".

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