Catalogue Number
NMLH.1993.194.27
Object Name
Leaflet
Title
Blockade Molesworth
Place
RAF Molesworth
People
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)
Events
Molesworth Peace Camp
Date
circa 1985
Description
Black and white leaflet titled "Sit down in the name of the law blockade Molesworth" describing a demonstation against cruise missiles on 6th February organised by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). The reverse gives some context about RAF Molesworth, and includes a list of region CND meetings to plan the demonstration.
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.
CND is an organisation that campaigns for peace and for governments around the world to demilitarise and discard existing and new nuclear weapons programmes.
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