Trident Ploughshares

Anti Nuclear Protestors Blockade Derby Rolls Royce

web@tridentploughshares.org — 2008-04-28T04:00:00Z

Activists locked into concrete cylinders have blockaded Derby Rolls Royce this morning in protest at its continued production of reactor cores for the UK's nuclear deterrent Trident.
Derby protestors were joined by a dozen activists to roll two cylindrical concrete blocks into the entrance of the plant. They then locked themselves into the blocks using armtubes.
Reactor cores, made at the Derby plant, are a key part of the Trident submarine weapons system which was declared illegal in an (...)

Peace Activists Expose Lockheed Martin Nuclear Weapons Maker

web@tridentploughshares.org — 2008-02-07T06:46:58Z

"We are here to expose Lockheed Martin, makers of weapons of mass destruction"
This was the explanation given to puzzled people in the vicinity of Manning House, 22 Carlisle Place, near Victoria Station between 8.0 and 9.0 on the cold morning of Monday 4th February. Manning House is the UK corporate HQ of Lockheed Martin, the largest arms manufacturer in the world and senior partner in the triumvirate of companies, two of them US owned, who run the Atomic Weapons Establishment, (...)