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CND is the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. CND Cymru campaigns side by side with a host of other movements in Wales and worldwide to rid Britain and the world of all weapons of mass destruction, and for peace and justice - human, social and environmental. “Heddwch” (Welsh for Peace) is CND Cymru’s membership magazine. It is sent to all members three times a year, and it is also available online. Everyone in CND Cymru is a volunteer, and we are entirely funded by our supporters. Like any other voluntary group, we depend on our members’ voluntary work to be able to campaign. We need more volunteers in order to do more – if you would like to help, contact us!
CURRENT WORK
Heddwch Magazine
SUCCESSES
Jeremy Corbyn at the Eisteddfod
The vision of peace will always be stronger than the voices of war’
My thanks to CND Cymru for inviting me to this special anniversary event of the use of atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
The hundreds of thousands who died then were followed by many more deaths from nuclear fallout and cancers in the decades that followed.
As the nuclear arms race accelerated with the Soviet Union, Britain, France and later China acquiring their own nuclear weapons, testing followed.
Much of this testing was done in the Pacific but also in the Soviet Union and US. The testing also created nuclear destruction, fallout and deaths of soldiers used as “guinea pigs” as well as civilian people who had no notion of what was happening.
The peace movement around the world grew, in an attempt to both stop the spread of these appalling weapons but also to bring about nuclear disarmament in the countries that posessed them.
This led to the agreement on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty which is under review this month at the United Nations in New York.
The peace movement, an alternative to the idea of nuclear destruction, grew worldwide and with it the idea of nuclear weapons free zones around the world. They were successful in bringing about nuclear diasrmament in South Africa and making Africa, Latin America, and much of central Asia in to nuclear weapons free zones.
The amazing achivement of Wales in being declared a nuclear free zone 40 years ago should be applauded and venerated today. The vision of peace will always be stronger and more powerful than the voices of war.
There are growing tensions in the world. In this century alone we have seen huge conflicts from the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, to the wars in Syria, Libya and Yemen.
The residue of those wars has been poverty, destitution, terrorism and hunger.
The completely wrong decision of Russia to invade Ukraine has led to new tensions, more loss of life and new instability.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR COLLABORATION
CND Cymru campaigns side by side with a host of other movements in Wales and worldwide to rid Britain and the world of all weapons of mass destruction, for peace and for human and social and environmental justice.
“Heddwch” (Welsh for Peace) is CND Cymru’s membership magazine. It is sent to all members three times a year, and it is available online through the link above. Everyone in CND Cymru is a volunteer, and we are entirely funded by our supporters. Like any other voluntary group, we depend on our members’ voluntary work to be able to campaign.
We need more volunteers in order to do more – if you would like to help, contact us!