Catalogue Number
Temp.2024.9.16
Object Name
Leaflet
Title
Molesworth Support Group
Place
Cambridgeshire
People
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND); Manchester Activists at Alconbury and Molesworth (MAAM)
Events
Molesworth Peace Camp; Alconbury Peace Camp
Date
1980s?
Description
Photocopied printed and handwritten leaflet titled "Molesworth Support Group" with the logo at the top of 'MAAM', Manchester Activists at Alconbury and Molesworth.
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. A similar peace camp was also established at Alconbury airbase.
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