Catalogue Number
NMLH.1993.194.8
Object Name
Poster
Title
CND National Action Sit-Down Blockade Molesworth - Thursday Feb 6 Resist Cruise
Place
RAF Molesworth
People
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)
Events
Molesworth Peace Camp
Date
1986
Description
Black and white poster with bold text in a column. In the middle of the column is a photograph of a crowd of people at a protest. Many of them hold "Refuse Cruise" placards. The text reads "CND National Action Sit-Down Blockade Molesworth - Thursday Feb 6 Resist Cruise".
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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