28 miles from Oxford, the biggest and most powerful lasar system in the world is being built at the nuclear weapons factory, Aldermaston, at a cost of £183 million (on the scale of Heathrow’s terminal 5). Greenpeace’s report on 20th. Oct. exxposed the sham of the government’s stance this year (May 22nd. ) when Dan Browne, Defence Secretary insisted “The Atomic Weapons Establishment is not engaged in the development of any new warheads”. The Green peace report revealed testimony by US nuclear weapons scientists that the new facilities are in fact for designing and building new nuclear weapons. So much for parliamentary debate!
GREENPEACE iIS JOINING WITH THE BLOCK THE BUILDERS CAMPAIGN TO HOLD THE BIGGEST PROTEST WALK AND INSPECTION of this site on MONDAY 27th November. People will be coming from all over the UK to raise the issue of what is happening at Aldermaston.
To build new nuclear weapons would not only be to commit ourselves to the waste of £75 billion over the next 30 years it also totally undermines the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
If you can come to the Greenpeace/Block the Builders event, contact Malcolm on malcolm.carroll@uk.greenpeace.org. His phone number is 07717802892. He will advise you where to meet with others for the pre-meeting on the Sunday 26th. November. You can ask him about overnight sleeping facilities.