"banner, Scientists Against Nuclear Arms" [NBS I/D 188]

Catalogue Number
NBS I/D 188

Object Name
banner

Title
SCIENTISTS AGAINST NUCLEAR ARMS

Place
UK

Events
march

Creator(s)
NBS National Museum of Labour HistoryNBS National Museum of Labour History

Description
This home made banner, made of very awkward, but tough fibreglass material, was carried on several big Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament marches in the mid-1980s. The development and deployment of cruise missiles and the Trident nuclear submarine from about 1979 onwards drew many members of the scientific and academic communities in Britain into a campaign of mass protest.

SANA developed to become, in 1991, Scientists for Global Responsibility. The banner was given to the museum by Tom Kibble FRS, Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London, who was chair of SANA for five years, until 1991.

Materials: Ground of plain woven glass fibre with hand painted lettering.


[In style this looks earlier, realted to late 50s CND campaign. Did the donor get confused/?NM]

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