"The Snowball Campaign leaflet" [NMLH.1994.62.8.21]

Catalogue Number
NMLH.1994.62.8.21

Object Name
Leaflet

Title
The snowball campaign

Place
RAF Fylingdales, Yorkshire

Events
Snowball Campaign

Date
1984?

Description
Printed leaflet titled "The snowball campaign" with a photograph on the right hand side of a policeman approaching a protester by a wire fence. The reverse side includes information about Fylingdales Ballistic Missiles Early Warning Station, used by the RAF and US Air Force.


The Snowball Campaign was a direct-action campaign, calling on the UK government to vote for multi-lateral disarmament, to encourage the USA to do the same, and to cease the Trident and Cruise missile programmes. Activists cut the perimeter fence at nuclear bases including USAF (US Air Force) base Sculthorpe, alongside producing articles and TV programmes, newsletters, and letter writing. Starting in 1984 with three people, each organised wire-cutting event aimed to increase, or snowball, the numbers of people cutting the fence who would then hand themselves into the police and be charged with criminal damage, which generated media and political interest in the campaign.

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