Scottish CND

12/06/2026

Here's an interesting new chart published by International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) this week - the latest of their annual figures on nuclear weapons spending.

It shows UK spending on nuclear weapons has increased by 17% in a year. The previous ICAN report showed UK spending had increased by 26% between 2023-2024. These are skyrocketing costs.

It also shows the UK now spends more on nuclear weapons than Russia. It is the third highest spender on nuclear weapons in the world (second in per-capita terms), spending very nearly as much as China in real terms, a country with 20x our population. The UK and France between them spend twice as much as Russia on nuclear weapons.

UK spending on nuclear weapons is so out of control that the Public Accounts Committee has made a call for new transparency mechanisms into this spending, since existing published information is far too vague for them to properly scrutinise and challenge.

And yet the former military bosses (many of whom now work in "defence" industries) want more. They want much much more money for unusable omnicide weapons, at the cost of the public provisions of the UK.

We are being fleeced!

12/06/2026

If the UK's "defence" needs are so urgent, why won't any of the former military chiefs who now appear so regularly in the media (many of whom now work in the military industries) discuss the possibility of progressive taxation to pay for it?

Is it perhaps because that may affect their own bottom line, whereas cutting welfare and other state spending wouldn't?

12/06/2026

11/06/2026

Australian public enquiry into the AUKUS deal, opened last week, highlights substantial public dissent about the plans.

The UK cannot sustain its own nuclear submarine fleet (Astute boats all berthed waiting for maintenance) and yet still plans to build several submarines for Australia at enormous cost.

Former Labor foreign affairs minister says belief US would defend Australia in event of an existential attack is a ‘ludicrous delusion’

08/06/2026

Disaster plans to introduce nuclear-capable US fighter jets to carry US nuclear bombs under NATO nuclear sharing arrangements may be CHOPPED:

08/06/2026

The US is reportedly in confidential talks with additional EU countries to expand nuclear sharing on the continent.

Currently, Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey and the UK host US nuclear weapons under NATO nuclear-sharing arrangements. This could be extended to Poland and other Baltic states that have expressed interest in hosting US nuclear bombs.

Core doubts about nuclear sharing are still not addressed: namely whether the US would risk nuclear war to protect another country, or the increased risk of escalation and accidents caused by multiplying the frontiers for nuclear conflict.

Proliferation of US nuclear weapons across Europe would create new frontiers for nuclear conflict, with new risks of escalation and accidents.

08/06/2026

Plants for Peace by Edinburgh CND!

Edinburgh CND stall at Meadows Festival today

06/06/2026

It's the Meadows Festival in Edinburgh today 6th June and tomorrow. You'll find Edinburgh CND at pitch MW202, which is between Middle Meadow Walk and Jawbone Walk (quite near the kids area and main stage).
They'll be till 5-ish both days. We're doing plants but not as many as previous years. There will be more bric a brac this year due to some generous donations. There will also be a bookstall, also campaigning materials.
Local folk band 'Jawbone Walk' are doing a set, probably on Saturday morning.
We still welcome donations of plants and quality bric a brac, delivered to the stall.
If you want to help just turn up
Sunday especially needs volunteers. . . .

06/06/2026

Military attacks on nuclear facilities have become a disturbing new theme of conflicts worldwide, with power plants in Ukraine, Iran and now the UAE subject to remote strikes.

Nuclear plants are forced to rely on backup generators to continue running safely when damage to core energy supply causes disruption.

The environmental risks of attacks on nuclear plants are incalculable, and the security liability of these facilities is rarely acknowledged in the debate surrounding nuclear power.

No strikes on nuclear facilities!

05/06/2026

Nuclear Information Service have published another report scrutinising the UK government's proposals to introduce nuclear-capable F35a jets into the RAF.

These could carry US nuclear bombs under US control within the NATO nuclear-sharing arrangement.

The NIS report argues that deploying so-called "tactical" nuclear weapons lowers the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons and thus increases the likelihood of escalation to nuclear war.

Far from improving security prospects, this expansion of nuclear capabilities thus creates greater risks which have not been fully acknowledged by the UK government or MoD.

Full report available for free here: https://ow.ly/MjUK50Z73Rr