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Rethink Trident: Atomic weapons campaigners launch new effort to stop missile replacement
Thom Yorke, Frankie Boyle and Russell Brand and other figures join CND to put end to a weapons system as 'useful as bubonic plague'
Anti-nuclear campaigners opened a new front yesterday in the fight against Tory plans to splash £100 billion on weapons of mass destruction that are as “useful as bubonic plague.”
Leaders of the three main political parties had skipped Parliament for Scotland in a bid to shore up the campaign against Scottish independence.
But activists filled the void in the heart of Westminster to launch Rethink Trident — a new push to reverse plans to retool the nuclear weapons arsenal and instead put Britain at the heart of global disarmament.
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