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A. J. P. Taylor
Alan John Percivale Taylor (25 March 1906 – 7 September 1990) was an English historian who specialised in 19th- and 20th-century European diplomacy.
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Aldermaston
Aldermaston is a mostly rural, dispersed settlement, civil parish and electoral ward in Berkshire, England.
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Aldermaston Marches
The Aldermaston marches were anti-nuclear weapons demonstrations in the 1950s and 1960s, taking place on Easter weekend between the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston in Berkshire, England, and London, over a distance of fifty-two miles, or roughly 83 km.
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Alex Comfort
Alexander Comfort (10 February 1920 – 26 March 2000) was a British scientist and physician known best for his nonfiction sex manual, The Joy of Sex (1972).
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Ali Hewson
Alison Hewson (née Stewart; born 23 March 1961) is an Irish activist and businesswoman.
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Andy Stirling
Andy Stirling (born 3 March 1961) is Professor of science and technology policy at Sussex University.
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Angie Zelter
Angie Zelter (b. 5 June 1951) is a British activist and the founder of a number of international campaign groups, including Trident Ploughshares and the International Woman's Peace Service.
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Anti-nuclear movement
The anti-nuclear movement is a social movement that opposes various nuclear technologies.
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Anti-nuclear organizations
Anti-nuclear organizations may oppose uranium mining, nuclear power, and/or nuclear weapons.
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Anti-nuclear protests
Anti-nuclear protests began on a small scale in the U.S. as early as 1946 in response to Operation Crossroads.
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Antony Froggatt
Antony Froggatt is an energy policy consultant and a senior research fellow at Chatham House.
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Atomic Weapons Establishment
The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) is responsible for the design, manufacture and support of warheads for the United Kingdom's nuclear weapons.
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Bertie Lewis
Hubert "Bertie" Lewis (22 July 1920 – 21 December 2010) was a World War II RAF airman who went on to become a peace campaigner in the UK.
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate.
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Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation
The Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation was established in 1963.
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Brian Wynne
Brian Wynne (Born 14 January 1947) is Professor Emeritus of Science Studies and a former Research Director of the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change (CSEC) at the Lancaster University.
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Bruce Kent
Bruce Kent (born 22 June 1929) is a British political activist and a former Roman Catholic priest.
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Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) is an organisation that advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament by the United Kingdom, international nuclear disarmament and tighter international arms regulation through agreements such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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Caroline Lucas
Caroline Patricia Lucas (born 9 December 1960) is a British politician, and since 2 September 2016, Co-Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, with Jonathan Bartley.
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Charles Secrett
Charles Secrett is an environmental activist, head of Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland in 1993-2003.
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Christian CND
Christian CND (CCND) is a 'Specialist Section' of CND, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and has existed since 1960.
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Civil disobedience
Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government or occupying international power.
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Civil Nuclear Constabulary
The Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC) (Welsh: Heddlu Sifil Niwclear) is a special police force responsible for providing law enforcement and security at or within 5 km of any relevant nuclear site and for nuclear materials in transit within the United Kingdom.
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Climate change
Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years).
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Committee of 100 (United Kingdom)
The Committee of 100 was a British anti-war group.
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Cruise missile
A cruise missile is a guided missile used against terrestrial targets that remains in the atmosphere and flies the major portion of its flight path at approximately constant speed.
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Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment
Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment (CORE) is a non-political, non-profit organisation, located in Barrow-in-Furness, which since 1980 has campaigned against all aspects of the operation of Sellafield, formally Windscale and the site of the 1957 reactor fire.
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David Elliott (professor)
David Elliott is Professor of Technology Policy at the Open University.
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David Fleming (writer)
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David Lowry
David Lowry is a research consultant with specialist knowledge of UK and EU nuclear and environment policy.
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Direct Action Committee
The Direct Action Committee (DAC) against nuclear war was a pacifist organisation formed "to assist the conducting of non-violent direct action to obtain the total renunciation of nuclear war and its weapons by Britain and all other countries as a first step in disarmament".
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E.ON
E.ON SE (marketed with an interpunct as E·ON) is a European holding company based in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Energy Fair
Energy Fair in the United Kingdom is a group of six people leading a campaign that claims that the nuclear power industry receives unfair subsidies, consisting of.
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Energy security
Energy security is the association between national security and the availability of natural resources for energy consumption.
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Faslane Peace Camp
Faslane Peace Camp is a permanent peace camp sited alongside Faslane Naval base in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.
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Frank Barnaby
Frank Charles Barnaby is Nuclear Issues Consultant to the Oxford Research Group, a freelance defence analyst, and a prolific author on military technology, based in the UK.
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Friends of the Earth (EWNI)
Friends of the Earth (EWNI) (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) is one of 70 national groups around the world which make up the Friends of the Earth network of environmental organisations.
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Friends of the Earth Scotland
Friends of the Earth Scotland (FoES) is a Scottish charity and an independent member of the Friends of the Earth international network of environmental organizations It is one of the 30 national organisations that Friends of the Earth Europe represents and unites at the European level.
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Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
The was an energy accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima Prefecture, initiated primarily by the tsunami following the Tōhoku earthquake on 11 March 2011.
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Gene Sharp
Gene Sharp (January 21, 1928 – January 28, 2018) was the founder of the Albert Einstein Institution, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the study of nonviolent action, and a retired professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
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George Monbiot
George Joshua Richard Monbiot (born 27 January 1963) is a British writer known for his environmental, political activism.
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Gordon Walker (professor)
Gordon P. Walker is professor in the Department of Geography and Lancaster Environment Centre at Lancaster University.
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Green Party in Northern Ireland
The Green Party in Northern Ireland is a green party in Northern Ireland which works in co-operation with green parties across Britain and Ireland, Europe and globally.
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Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp
Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp was a peace camp established to protest nuclear weapons being placed at RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire, England.
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Greenpeace
Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over 39 countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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Helen John
Helen John (September 1937 – 5 November 2017) was one of the first full-time members of the Greenham Common peace camp, who worked "fearlessly and relentlessly" to undermine the British and US military for 30 years.
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Helen Pidd
Helen Pidd (born 1981) is a news writer for The Guardian who succeeded Martin Wainwright as the paper’s Northern Editor, based in Manchester, in Spring 2013.
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Helen Thomas (activist)
Helen Thomas (16 August 1966 – 5 August 1989) was a Welsh peace activist from Newcastle Emlyn.
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Hilda Murrell
Hilda Murrell (3 February 1906 – 23? March 1984) was a British rose grower, naturalist, diarist and campaigner against nuclear power and nuclear weapons.
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Hinkley Point C nuclear power station
Hinkley Point C nuclear power station (HPC) is a project to construct a 3,200 MWe nuclear power station with two EPR reactors in Somerset, England.
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HMNB Clyde
Her Majesty's Naval Base, Clyde (HMNB Clyde; also HMS Neptune) primarily sited at Faslane is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Devonport and HMNB Portsmouth).
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Hugh Brock
Hugh Brock (1914 - 1985) was a lifelong British pacifist, editor of Peace News between 1955 and 1964, a promoter of nonviolent direct action and a founder of the Direct Action Committee, a forerunner of the Committee of 100.
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Hugh Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Putney
Hugh Gater Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Putney, PC (27 July 1908 – 26 January 2004) was a British politician, campaigner and Labour Party member of Parliament and the House of Lords.
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Ian Fairlie
Ian Fairlie, Ph.D., is a U.K. based Canadian consultant on radiation in the environment and former member of the 3 person secretariat to Britain’s Committee Examining the Radiation Risks of Internal Emitters (CERRIE).
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Ian Welsh
Ian McWilliam Welsh (born 23 November 1953) is a Scottish politician who works as Chief Executive of the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland.
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Ipsos MORI
Ipsos MORI is a market research organisation in the United Kingdom.
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J. B. Priestley
John Boynton Priestley, OM (13 September 1894 – 14 August 1984), known by his pen name J.B. Priestley, was an English novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, social commentator and broadcaster.
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Janet Bloomfield
Janet Elizabeth Bloomfield (née Hood; 10 October 1953 – 2 April 2007) was a peace and disarmament campaigner who was chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) from 1993 to 1996.
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Jean McSorley
Jean McSorley is long-standing anti-nuclear campaigner, who formed the group "Cumbrians Against a Radioactive Environment" (Core) from her home town of Barrow-in-Furness, England in protest at the local Sellafield plant.
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Jeremy Leggett
Jeremy Leggett (born 1954) is a British social entrepreneur and writer.
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Jerome Ravetz
Jerome (Jerry) Ravetz is a philosopher of science.
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Jim Falk
Jim Falk (born) is a physicist and academic researcher on science and technology studies.
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John Collins (priest)
Lewis John Collins (23 March 1905 – 31 December 1982) was an Anglican priest who was active in several radical political movements in the United Kingdom.
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Jonathon Porritt
Jonathon Espie Porritt, CBE (born 6 July 1950) is a leading British environmentalist and writer.
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Joseph Rotblat
Sir Joseph Rotblat (4 November 1908 – 31 August 2005) was a Polish physicist, a self-described "Pole with a British passport".
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Kate Hudson (activist)
Katharine Jane Hudson (born 1958) is a British left-wing political activist and academic who is the General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and Media Officer of Left Unity.
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Labour CND
Labour CND (Lab CND) is a 'Specialist Section' of CND, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, specifically relating to CND-supporting members the Labour Party.
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Lawrence S. Wittner
Lawrence S. Wittner (born May 5, 1941 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American historian who has written extensively on peace movements, foreign policy, and economic inequality.
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List of anti–nuclear power groups
Anti-nuclear power groups have emerged in every country that has had a nuclear power programme.
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List of books about nuclear issues
This is a list of books about nuclear issues.
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List of Chernobyl-related articles
This is a list of Chernobyl-related articles.
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List of nuclear whistleblowers
There have been a number of nuclear whistleblowers, often nuclear engineers, who have identified safety concerns about nuclear power and nuclear weapons production.
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List of Nuclear-Free Future Award recipients
The Nuclear-Free Future Award annually honours the architects of a nuclear-free planet.
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Marghanita Laski
Marghanita Laski (24 October 1915 – 6 February 1988) was an English journalist, radio panellist and novelist; she also wrote literary biography, plays and short stories.
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Marjorie Thompson
Marjorie Ellen Thompson (January 31, 1954—September 15, 2014) was an American biologist and musician who served as Associate Dean of Biological Sciences at Brown University.
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MEDACT
Medact is a non-profit organisation and registered charity for and of health professionals.
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Meg Beresford
Meg Beresford (born 5 September 1937) was a British campaigner against nuclear weapons and General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament from 1985-1990.
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Michael Foot
Michael Mackintosh Foot (23 July 1913 – 3 March 2010) was a British Labour Party politician and man of letters.
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Michael Randle
Michael Randle (born 1933) is an English peace campaigner and researcher known for his involvement in nonviolent direct action in Britain, and also for his role in helping the Soviet spy George Blake escape from a British prison.
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Mike Pentz
Michael John ("Mike") Pentz (30 November 1924 – 29 May 1995) was a physicist, activist in the peace movement, and an influential pioneer of teaching science to university students by distance education.
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Nicolas Walter
Nicolas Hardy Walter (22 November 1934 – 7 March 2000) was a British anarchist and atheist writer, speaker and activist.
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Npower (United Kingdom)
Npower Limited (trading as npower) is an electricity generator and supplier of gas and electricity to homes and businesses which is based in the United Kingdom, formerly known as Innogy plc.
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Nuclear energy policy
Nuclear energy policy is a national and international policy concerning some or all aspects of nuclear energy and the nuclear fuel cycle, such as uranium mining, ore concentration, conversion, enrichment for nuclear fuel, generating electricity by nuclear power, storing and reprocessing spent nuclear fuel, and disposal of radioactive waste.
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Nuclear Information Service
NIS (Nuclear Information Service) is a not-for-profit, independent information service based in the UK, which works to promote public awareness and foster debate on nuclear disarmament and related safety and environmental issues.
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Nuclear or Not?
Nuclear or Not? Does Nuclear Power Have a Place in a Sustainable Energy Future? is a 2007 book edited by Professor David Elliott.
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Nuclear power
Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions that release nuclear energy to generate heat, which most frequently is then used in steam turbines to produce electricity in a nuclear power plant.
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Nuclear Power and the Environment
Nuclear Power and the Environment, sometimes simply called the Flowers Report, was released in September 1976 and is the sixth report of the UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, chaired by Sir Brian Flowers.
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Nuclear power in Scotland
There are two nuclear power stations in Scotland, and several nuclear-powered submarines are based there.
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Nuclear power in the United Kingdom
Nuclear power in the United Kingdom generates around a quarter of the country's electricity as of 2016, projected to rise to a third by 2035.
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Nuclear weapon
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb).
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Nuclear weapons and the United Kingdom
In October 1952, the United Kingdom (UK) became the third country to independently develop and test nuclear weapons.
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Olive Gibbs
Olive Frances Gibbs, DL (née Cox; 17 February 1918 – 28 September 1995) was a British Labour politician and anti-nuclear weapons campaigner.
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Pat Arrowsmith
Pat Arrowsmith (born 2 March 1930) is an English author and peace campaigner.
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Paul Johns (activist)
Paul Johns was chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) between 1985 and 1987.
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Peace camp
Peace camps are a form of physical protest camp that is focused on anti-war activity.
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Peggy Duff
Peggy Duff (8 February 1910 – 16 April 1981) was a British political activist who started off her career with a protest against the treatment of German prisoners of war in Britain after the Second World War.
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Radioactive waste
Radioactive waste is waste that contains radioactive material.
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RAF Daws Hill
RAF Daws Hill was a Ministry of Defence site, located near High Wycombe and Flackwell Heath, in Buckinghamshire, England, close to the M40 motorway.
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RAF High Wycombe
RAF High Wycombe is a Royal Air Force station, situated in the village of Walters Ash, near High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England.
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RAF Lakenheath
Royal Air Force Lakenheath or RAF Lakenheath is a Royal Air Force station near the town of Lakenheath in Suffolk, England, north-east of Mildenhall and west of Thetford.
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RAF Molesworth
Royal Air Force Molesworth or more simply RAF Molesworth is a Royal Air Force station located near Molesworth, Cambridgeshire, England with a history dating back to 1917.
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RAF Upper Heyford
RAF Upper Heyford was a Royal Air Force station located north-west of Bicester near the village of Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire, England.
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Renewable energy
Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources, which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat.
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Rosie Kane
Rosemary "Rosie" Kane (née McGarvey) (born on 5 June 1961 in Glasgow) is a Scottish Socialist Party politician, and former Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Glasgow Region.
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Scientists against Nuclear Arms
Scientists against Nuclear Arms (SANA) was formed in 1981 by the physicist and peace activist Mike Pentz together with Steven Rose, both academics at the Open University, to oppose nuclear arms.
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Scotland
Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.
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Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
The Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (Scottish CND) is the Scottish representative body of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).
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Scottish Government
The Scottish Government (Riaghaltas na h-Alba; Scots Govrenment) is the executive of the devolved Scottish Parliament.
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Scottish Green Party
The Scottish Green Party (Pàrtaidh Uaine na h-Alba; Scots Green Pairty) is a green political party in Scotland.
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Scottish National Party
The Scottish National Party (SNP; Pàrtaidh Nàiseanta na h-Alba, Scots Naitional Pairtie) is a Scottish nationalist and social-democratic political party in Scotland.
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Scottish Parliament
The Scottish Parliament (Pàrlamaid na h-Alba; Scots: The Scots Pairlament) is the devolved national, unicameral legislature of Scotland.
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Scottish Socialist Party
The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP; Pàrtaidh Sòisealach na h-Alba; Scots Socialist Pairtie) is a left-wing political party campaigning for the establishment of an independent, socialist Scotland.
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Seeds of Hope
Seeds of Hope was a plowshares group of women who damaged a BAE Hawk fighter jet at the British Aerospace Warton Aerodrome site near Preston, England, in 1996.
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Spies for Peace
Spies for Peace was a British group of anti-war activists associated with the Committee of 100 who publicized government preparations for rule after a nuclear war.
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Stephen King-Hall
William Stephen Richard King-Hall, Baron King-Hall (21 January 1893 – 2 June 1966) was a British naval officer, writer, politician and playwright.
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Stephen Thomas (professor)
Stephen Thomas is a professor at the University of Greenwich Business School, working in the area of energy policy.
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Stuart Weir
Stuart Weir is a British journalist, writer, and Visiting Professor with the Government Department at the University of Essex.
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Sustainable Development Commission
The Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) was a non-departmental public body responsible for advising the UK Government, Scottish Government, Welsh Assembly Government, and Northern Ireland Executive on sustainable development.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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TheGuardian.com
TheGuardian.com, formerly known as Guardian.co.uk and Guardian Unlimited, is a British news and media website owned by the Guardian Media Group.
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Tom Burke (environmentalist)
Tom Burke is Chairman and Founding Director of E3G, Third Generation Environmentalism (Environmental Think Tank), an Environmental Policy Adviser to Rio Tinto, and a university Visiting Professor.
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Tony Juniper
Anthony Juniper (born 24 September 1960) is a British campaigner, writer, sustainability advisor and environmentalist who served as Executive Director of Friends of the Earth, England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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Top Level Group
The Top Level Group of UK Parliamentarians for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament and Non-proliferation (TLG) is a cross-party parliamentary group in the United Kingdom, whose primary focus is the advancement of the nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation agenda in Britain and internationally.
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Trafalgar Square
Trafalgar Square is a public square in the City of Westminster, Central London, built around the area formerly known as Charing Cross.
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Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament.
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Trident (missile)
The Trident missile is a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) equipped with multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRV).
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Trident (UK nuclear programme)
Trident, also known as the Trident nuclear programme or Trident nuclear deterrent, covers the development, procurement and operation of nuclear weapons in the United Kingdom and their means of delivery.
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Trident Ploughshares
Trident Ploughshares (originally named Trident Ploughshares 2000) is an activist anti-nuclear weapons group, founded in 1998 with the aim of "beating swords into ploughshares" (taken from the Book of Isaiah).
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United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs
The UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) (Le Bureau des affaires du désarmement) is an Office of the United Nations Secretariat established in January 1998 as the Department for Disarmament Affairs, part of United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's plan to reform the UN as presented in his report to the General Assembly in July 1997.
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Wales
Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.
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Walter Wolfgang
Walter Jakob Wolfgang (born 23 June 1923) is a German-born British socialist and peace activist.
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Willie MacRae
Willie MacRae (18 May 1923 – 7 April 1985) was a Scottish lawyer, orator, naval officer, politician and anti-nuclear campaigner.
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Windscale fire
The Windscale fire of 10 October 1957 was the worst nuclear accident in Great Britain's history, ranked in severity at level 5 out of a possible 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
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World Nuclear Industry Status Report
The World Nuclear Industry Status Report is a yearly report that explores the global challenges facing the nuclear power industry.
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YouGov
YouGov is an international Internet-based market research and data analytics firm, headquartered in the UK, with operations in Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.
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2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
The was a magnitude 9.0–9.1 (Mw) undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on Friday 11 March 2011, with the epicentre approximately east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku and the hypocenter at an underwater depth of approximately.
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