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CND in Scotland — ‘needed now more than ever’
ARTHUR WEST, chair of Scottish CND, looks back at a year of campaigning ahead of the organisation’s AGM
A CND activist outside the Faslane naval base in Scotland

IN Scotland we are very conscious that 25 miles down the road from our biggest city the Faslane naval base houses the Trident Nuclear Weapons system.

Trident is a fearsome weapon of mass destruction. Each Trident warhead is at least six times more powerful than the bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima at the end of the second world war.

If the Britain were ever to use such a weapon, even against military targets, it would cause millions of deaths and injuries.

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