Deterrent Similar sharp treatment is given to arguments about the need for Britain to possess an accial. author points out that Britain deterrent'. She quotes Marshall Lord Carver, by no means an opponent of nuclear MADNESS On October 26th, 80,000 peopie marchee inrougn une sureels of London to protest against the Cruise and Trident missiles. The demonstration was organised by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. We can stop the Missile Madness. There are three years until the Cruise missiles are sited. The £5000 mon neen svstem can Su be cancelled. Protest and SurvIVE CND's immediate policy is for Britain unilaterally to abandon nuclear weapons. CND campaigns for a world free of nuclear weapons and all other weapons of mass destruction. Sheffield CND consists of local groups, affiliated organisations, and individuals from a broad range of viewpoints. We are constantly organising meetings, film shows, pickets and vigils, petiwould, she argues, strengthen international pressure on those DOWCIS retaining weapons. strength to all those colntries, particularly in the third world, which have The demanded multilateral nuclear and general disarmament.
But Britain's Field policy is tied hand and foot to US global straregy: One cannot but agree with Belty England Torley Mi nuclear 'We could add our key to insistently population' ment. foreign nuclear Such large-scale actions, showing the growing strength ot the mass movement. are the winning 'the whole oppose the missiles and support disarmaThis approach bullding te movemeal agals!
weapons reniectea in cops new pallphlet. It proposes taking the * Thorpe Hesley ear Scholes B6067 joint CND/Labour Party/TUC march which could easily be a quarter of a million strong. Turning resolutions into mass public political action - that is the only means of 'consolidating the victories in 'Nuclear Disarmament for Britain', by Betty England. Price 50p from CND, 1/ Goodwin Si, London 14.
"Irt the event of nuclear war there will be no RAWMARSH CITY CENTRE A crater 140ft deep and 1,300ft across. 0-2 MILES FROM CENTRE All buildings destroyed, and 90% of the people killed or seriously injured. 2-4 MILES FROM CENTRE Most buildings destroyed, and 50% of the people killed or seriously injured 35% of the people killed or Eckington conference in Birmingham.
12 April: Trans-Pennine march starting in Man chester and arriving in Leeds on 16 April.
Second stage in Brussels on Easter Saturday, demonstration will take diameter away 4-6 MILES FROM THE CENTRE Many buildings destroyed, and side of the sun the explosion, miles May Day: Nuclear to be Thene on May Day events.
9-10 May: National CND conference in London. rurther information CND, London The effect of a thermo nuclear bomb depends upon the heiaht at which it is exploded. Exploded near the ground, it scoops out a vast crater, smashes everything for several kilometres and forms a towering mushroom cloud of radioactive dust and debris that comes down as deadly fallout. A near direct hit would obliterate any underground shelter. Exploded high up, where the air is thin and more energy goes into heat, it is mainly a fire weapon for use against people and buildings above ground. A 5 megaton explosion 30 miles up would send a searing heat wave over an area of 30 miles A 10 megaton bomb would: *flash quicker than the eye can blink for protection, burning the eyes of people looking in its direction from 240 or 300 miles *grow within 40 seconds to a blindingly bright fireball nearly 4 miles across, as hot as the inAND, depending on the height of *blow a crater, deeper than London's deepest underaround railway and over ¾ mile wide, producing a rim of piled up wreckage up to 2 miles wide *smash everything within 3½ miles, destroy all steel bridges for 7 miles, block streets for 15 miles and cause turther severe damage up to a distance of 30 * fatally burn anyone in the open (up to 23 miles) and ignite fires (30 miles). The fires would
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