Catalogue Number
NMLH.2022.336
Object Name
Postcard
Title
The Firth of Clyde
Place
Faslane, Scotland
People
Kennard, Peter; Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND); Scottish CND
Events
Faslane Peace Camp
Date
around 1986
Description
An A5 postcard showing a collage of photographs from The Firth of Clyde at Faslane, Europe's largest nuclear arsenal. Black text on the back reads: "Europe's largest nuclear arsenal is situated on the Firth of Clyde at Faslane, Glen Douglas and the Holy Loch. Here are based Britain's 4 Polaris submarines (with a firepower greater than the entire weight of bombs dropped in the Second World War) along with 10 American Polaris and 4 American Poseidon submarines." This postcard was produced by the Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) using photographs from Peter Kennard (copyright).
Faslane Peace Camp has been a continuously occupied peace camp at Faslane Naval base since 1982, run by anti-nuclear campaigners who protest the base housing Trident missiles. The Trident nuclear programme is the UK's nuclear deterrent, and the government describes it as a means to "deter the most extreme threats to our national security and way of life". Anti-nuclear campaigners, like the CND argue that nuclear weapons shouldn't be created or used, and all existing nuclear weapons should be decommissioned and destroyed. Protesting at Faslane has varied in intensity and method over the decades, with blockades and intrusions into the base taking place alongside the camp.
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) is an organisation that campaigns for peace and for governments around the world to demilitarise and discard existing and new nuclear weapons programmes. Peter Kennard is a London-born and based photomontage artist and Professor of Political Art at the Royal College of Art. Seeking to reflect his involvement in the anti-Vietnam War movement, he turned from painting to photomontage to better address his political views.
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