"Cruise at Molesworth leaflet" [Temp.2024.14.19]

Catalogue Number
Temp.2024.14.19

Object Name
Leaflet

Title
Cruise at Molesworth

Place
RAF Molesworth

People
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)

Events
Molesworth Peace Camp

Date
1987

Description
Leaflet titled "Cruise at Molesworth" with an image of a military convoy vehicle. It advertises a demonstration at Molesworth on 28 March, organised by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, an organisation that campaigns for peace and for governments around the world to demilitarise and discard existing and new nuclear weapons programmes.


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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