A CAMPAIGN group from Salisbury joined other groups from across the UK to protest over plans to bring American nuclear bombs RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk.
The Salisbury Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) met the groups on Saturday, May 20.
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament said the move to bring the newer and more powerful weapons to UK soil took place without public debate or discussion in Parliament.
RAF Lakenheath, about 70 miles northeast of London, is the largest U.S. Air Force-operated base in England, with more than 4,000 military personnel. It has been the target of protests before.
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The Ministry of Defence has neither confirmed nor denied the presence of nuclear weapons at the site, citing “longstanding UK and NATO policy” when approached for comment by the East Anglian Daily Times in March.
A spokesperson for Salisbury CND said: “These weapons further destabilise our fragile world. If nuclear weapons are used, radiation will not be confined by borders. The whole of humanity will be fundamentally threatened by the fallout and the nuclear winter such weapons will produce. There can be no winners from such a war.
“These weapons are thus unusable. Their existence makes accidents more likely and accelerates an unwinnable arms race, with the resultant squandering of precious resources.”
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