Catalogue Number
NMLH.1993.184
Object Name
Razor Wire
Place
Molesworth, Cambridgeshire
People
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)
Events
Molesworth Peace Camp
Description
Piece of metal razor wire from RAF Molesworth base. It has jagged edges where cut and is bent in half.
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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