Bruce Kent & Rebecca Johnson come to Catford

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CND , is that still about . I am really surprised , thought we lost it two decades or so ago..


I expect Ukraine keen on CND. They gave up their nuclear weapons for a great powers undertaking to preserve their territorial integrity .

Just proves what a great decision they took.

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CND , is that still about . I am really surprised , thought we lost it two decades or so ago..


I expect Ukraine keen on CND. They gave up their nuclear weapons for a great powers undertaking to preserve their territorial integrity .

Just proves what a great decision they took.

Just proves the information you read is incorrect yet again.

Originally Ukrainian leader Leonid Kravchuk was "not worried" if nuclear weapons were sent to Russia for decommissioning. Gradually, however, his worries developed sufficiently to lead to him to reverse his position and on March 12, 1992 to suspend temporarily the transfer of tactical nuclear weapons to Russia. However, in conformity with the July 16, 1990 Declaration of State Sovereignty and other agreements signed at the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), by May 1992 Ukraine voluntarily removed all tactical nuclear weapons (approximately 3,000) inherited from the former Soviet Union.

The trilateral agreement signed in Moscow on January 14, 1994 by the United States, Russia, and Ukraine was seen as a significant Western success in disarming Ukraine of nuclear weapons. Under the agreement, the Russian Federation sent 100 tons of fuel to Ukraine for its nuclear power plants. The United States agreed to pay $60 million to the Russian Federation in support of that process. For its part, Ukraine agreed to transfer 200 nuclear warheads over a 10-month period. Ukraine joined the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) as a non-nuclear weapon state in 1994. Ukraine signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) on February 23, 2001. With Ukraine’s signing of the CTBT, Eastern Europe became the first of the Treaty’s six geographical regions to fully meet the Treaty’s conditions to into effect.

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/ukraine/

Where do you get your info from?

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[I am passionately against nuclear weapons but also feel strongly that the economic case against replacing Trident is non-debatable . At a time when we are facing huge cuts in our services ,hospitals closing ,youth unemployment etc how can we possibly justify the billions on replacing a system that we don't need.
Bruce Kent who is one of the best orators that I know is now 84 and is touring the country to present the case against Trident . Come and listen to him at Catford Council Chambers on 11th April
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