"The balance of sanity leaflet" [Temp.2024.10.1]

Catalogue Number
Temp.2024.10.1

Object Name
Leaflet

Title
The Balance of Sanity

Place
London

People
Parents for Survival

Events
Trident UK nuclear programme

Date
1983

Description
Printed leaflet titled "The Balance of Sanity" with an image of scales on the cover. On one side is a Trident nuclear submarine and on the other, tipping the scale, is "NO". On the reverse is information about the Trident Postcard Campaign, and stapled to one corner is a petition postcard addressed to the Secretary of State for Defence. It is produced by Parents for Survival.


Parents for Survival are an anti-nuclear arms group. In October 1983, protesters with their children delivered 250,000 postcards to the Ministry of Defence in London to protest the UK’s decision to buy the US-made Trident nuclear weapon system. 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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