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The letter is additionally being sent to the Defence and Foreign Secretaries, and to the leaders of the major political parties in the UK.

Daniel Viesnik, a spokesperson for Trident Ploughshares and one of the signatories to the letter said: "All around the world, people from the US President and former statesmen and military generals to rank-and-file campaigners are united in recognising the pressing need for global nuclear disarmament and ridding the world of the threat of nuclear war once and for all.

"It is time for the British Government to tally its words with its actions by no longer deploying its current Trident nuclear weapons, scrapping plans for their replacement and signing up to a Nuclear Weapons Convention - a global ban on nuclear weapons; only then will Britain have any genuine credibility on nuclear disarmament.

"The current economic crisis presents the ideal opportunity for the Government to review the advisability of wasting tens of billions of pounds on illegal, immoral and useless nuclear weapons, and instead focus limited resources on tackling climate change and meeting the genuine needs of society."

Please send a copy of the letter to your MP. You can download the letter by clicking on the word document called "letter to Gordon Brown" in the blue box in the top left corner of this page.

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