Catalogue Number
Temp.2024.9.5
Object Name
newsletter
Title
CND Campaign...Reagan's cruise missiles? We don't want them
Place
USA; UK
People
Reagan, Ronald; Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)
Date
1980s
Description
Printed newsletter titled "CND Campaign". The headline is "Reagan's cruise missiles? We don't want them" and there are four photographs of people with quotes saying they do not support the cruise missiles programme. Inside contains more on the same topic and a pre-printed form to join Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).
CND is an organisation that campaigns for peace and for governments around the world to demilitarise and discard existing and new nuclear weapons programmes. Multiple military bases were used by the UK and US militaries for housing cruise nuclear missiles during the 1980s. Protesters from peace camps at RAF Greenham Common, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), and others would report on vehicle movements, blockade roads and form human chains to stop the vehicles transporting the missiles, a protest action known as 'Cruisewatch'. In 1987, following the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty, the cruise missiles were removed from Greenham between 1989 and 1991, with the US Air Force (USAF) leaving in 1992.
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