Deadline for Disarmament

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This is a two-week period in which people will publicly demand, through their MPs in the UK and British embassies and consulates abroad, that the UK government fulfills its treaty obligations to eliminate its nuclear arsenal. We will be asking for a timetable of significant steps, culminating in the decommissioning of all our nuclear weapons, on the clear understanding that if the government does not act then ordinary citizens will consider that the peaceful acts of disarmament and of civil resistance to Trident they undertake will be essential and legitimate.

At the NPT conference in 2000 Britain was one of nuclear weapon states that made a renewed and unqualified commitment to eliminate its nuclear arsenal. Britain’s actions have not matched its fine words. It intends to retain nuclear weapons into the foreseeable future and reserves the right to design and deploy a successor to the current Trident system. To make matters worse Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon has made it clear that Britain would use Trident against non-nuclear states if they ever used chemical or biological weapons to attack British armed forces. In short, Britain shows no sign of willingness to fulfill its treaty obligations on weapons of mass destruction.

This is a Trident Ploughshares campaign but is not just for Trident Ploughshares affinity groups. We hope that other groups (local CNDs, peace groups etc) will take part and thus give their moral support to direct disarmament.

Trident Ploughshares will give Deadline for Disarmament a media launch early in April and we hope that many groups and individuals in the UK and elsewhere will take this opportunity to make the disarmament demand public, by making the meeting with MPs and consulates an event with marches, stunts etc.

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