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Christian peace campaigners from across Europe join French anti-nuclear protest


Christians active against the Replacement of Trident, the UK’s nuclear weapons system, which will be assembled at Aldermaston Atomic Weapons establishment cross the Channel to join forces with the French peace movement in Dijon. They go to make common cause with the French Peace Activists there who protest against the Centre de Recherche Nucleaire at Valduc, (just north of Dijon), just as they themselves protest against the Replacement of Trident, the UK Nuclear weapons system, that will be built at Aldermaston AWE.(just west of London).

Why go all the way to Valduc? Because the UK and France signed the ‘Teutates Treaty’ in 2010, to share advanced facilities at Valduc and Aldermaston AWE to research Nuclear weapons for the next 50 years. The French radiology facility (Teutates EPURE) will be at Valduc, in France. The UK Teutates Technological Development Centre (TDC Facility) will be built at AWE Aldermaston, Berkshire. The radiographic/hydro-dynamics facilities will permit design of new generations of nuclear weapons. This is contrary to the aims the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty, Article VI, ‘the elimination of all nuclear arsenals’ and and the spirit of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. These developments, together with Trident Replacement will cement us into the nuclear cycle for the next 50 years.

On Sunday 4 August the UK group will walk with their French colleagues round the Centre du Recherche Nucleaire, Valduc, France , to hang hang paper cranes on the fence in memory of the little Japanese girl, Sadako, who died of radiation sickness from the Hiroshima atomic bomb before she could make the thousand cranes she believed would save her.

The UK and French peace activists make an accord to work together for peace, to outlaw all work on nuclear weapons research, so that there will never be any more little girls like Sadako dying from the effects of nuclear weapons. No shared research facilities at Aldermaston and Valduc to research nuclear weapons for the next 50 years; these facilities to be used only for the decommissioning of the existing nuclear weapons.

On 6 August, the UK group joins the International Fast for Peace in Paris,(which takes place also at Aldermaston and Berlin) from 6 August, the dropping of the Hiroshima bomb, till the 9th August, the dropping of the bomb on Nagasaki.Churches in Scotland said in a statement: 'We urge the government of the UK not to invest in a replacement for the Trident system and to begin now the process of de-commissioning these weapons with the intention of diverting the sums spent on nuclear weaponry to programmes of aid and development.'

A few places left on on the bus. The cost is £180 all travel, sleeping on floors, two nights camping, bring small tent, food extra; pick up West London early morning 2nd August or 12 noon Dover Station.

For more information contact: Caroline Gilbert maasgilbert@hotmail.com Te;: 01865 241 290 or 020 8232 8997 Mob: 07503218766

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