Collections Display - People's History Museum: The national museum of democracy

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Catalogue Number
Temp.2024.4.12

Object Name
newspaper

Title
Nuclear warheads 'flown to base'

Place
RAF Molesworth

People
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)

Events
Molesworth Peace CampÂ

Date
1987

Description
Scrap of newspaper torn from a page, with a small column article titled "Nuclear warheads 'flown to base'". The date reads Friday December 4 1987, and it appears to be from The Guardian newspaper. The article describes American personnel working at RAF Molesworth in Cambridgeshire to airlift nuclear warheads into the base.

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"Nuclear warheads flown to base newspaper article 1987" [Temp.2024.4.12]