Catalogue Number
Temp.2024.9.8
Object Name
Newsletter
Title
CRUISE RESISTANCE BULLETIN No 6...Reaction to Cruise Deployment Exercises...Resist Cruise Feb 6 Molesworth
Place
RAF Molesworth
People
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)
Events
Molesworth Peace Camp
Date
1986
Description
Printed newsletter titled "CRUISE RESISTANCE BULLETIN No 6" with a Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) logo at the bottom. The headlines include "Reaction to Cruise Deployment Exercises" and "Resist Cruise Feb 6 Molesworth". The back cover contains more information about Molesworth and a cartoon illustration of a rocket with the shadow of its tripod base forming a peace symbol.
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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