"The Anti-Trident Campaign letter" [NMLH.1994.62.8.24]

Catalogue Number
NMLH.1994.62.8.24

Object Name
Letter

Title
The Anti-Trident Campaign (Formerly S.C.A.T)

Place
Scotland

People
Scottish Campaign Against Trident (SCAT); Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND); Scottish CND

Events
Trident UK nuclear programme

Date
1981

Description
Photocopied handwritten letter on headed paper "The Anti-Trident Campaign (Formerly S.C.A.T)" with an image of a submarine's tower through the surface of water in the bottom right of the page. The letter explains the Scottish Campaign Against Trident (SCAT) renaming to the Anti-Trident Campaign. It invites other anti-nuclear groups to associate with it and to attend the Convention of Anti-Trident Delegates in Glasgow and a die-in protest organised by Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).


Trident is the UK’s nuclear weapons programme with the stated purpose of a deterrent, according to the Ministry of Defence. It was established in 1980 and now operates out of a Royal navy base in Clyde on the west coast of Scotland. Anti-nuclear and peace activists have continually protested against Trident since its inception.

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