Those huge CND demos in the early 80s
Those huge CND demos in the early 80s
My collection of political badges from the 1980s shows the causes we cared about from racism to nuclear disarmament and freedom for the people of Chile
Protect and Survive – the madness of nuclear war advice
Government papers released now reveal that within Thatcher’s government there was real concern about sole American control of nuclear weapons stationed in the UK – especially at the time of the Greenham Common protests. Defence secretaries John Nott then Michael Heseltine would have liked dual keys over the weapons of mass destruction but they didn’t …
Jim Callaghan heckled during his 1979 election speech
Nuclear free zones – the early 80s movement
Greenham Common, CND and no nukes
In the early 1980s there was widespread anxiety that the world was on the verge of nuclear war which led to large CND demonstrations in London