"Defend Molesworth against Cruise leaflet" [Temp.2024.14.23]

Catalogue Number
Temp.2024.14.23

Object Name
Leaflet

Title
Defend Molesworth against Cruise

Place
RAF Molesworth

Events
Molesworth Peace Camp

Date
1985

Description
Colourful leaflet with blue background and an illustration of a peace symbol on a banner, with multicoloured ribbons attached. Text reads "DEFEND MOLESWORTH AGAINST CRUISE - EASTER 1985". At the bottom a text paragraph includes details about the three marches to Molesworth from Stevenage, Leicester and Cambridge.


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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