Catalogue Number
Temp.2024.9.21
Object Name
Newsletter
Title
Greater Manchester and District CND Transport/Action Group - Molesworth Easter Briefing
Place
RAF Molesworth
People
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND); Greater Manchester and District CND
Events
Molesworth Peace Camp
Date
1985?
Description
Printed information sheet titled "Greater Manchester and District CND [Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament] Transport/Action Group - Molesworth Easter Briefing". There is a map of Molesworth base at the bottom of the page.
RAF Molesworth in Cambridgeshire was one of three sites chosen to deploy 64 US Cruise missiles during the Cold War. In 1980, various peace campaigners started building a protest camp on the land, called 'Peace Corner'. In 1985, over 100 people were living there until the camp was evicted by police in April that year. Despite this, the campaign continued with various protestors camping in or around the site. Nuclear missiles were removed from the RAF Molesworth base in 1987 when The United States and The Soviet Union signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, and the camp officially disbanded in 1990, just before the end of the Cold War.
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