The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is a UK based activist organisation that calls for international nuclear disarmament. It was formed in 1957 in response to growing nuclear armament, including in the UK. Its symbol is widely recognised as a universal symbol of peace. The CND continues to publish magazines monthly updating readers on ongoing developments in the campaign.

This edition from Spring 1993 discusses ‘the deadly connection between nuclear power and nuclear weapons’. It suggests that encouraging nuclear power as an energy resource will result in increasing materials that could be repurposed as weapons. In exporting materials such as plutonium to western Europe and Japan, the British Nuclear Fuels PLC would be contributing to increasing stockpiles of nuclear material that could be sold to countries such as North Korea, undermining efforts to discourage nuclear armament.

The Commonweal Collection includes around 40 copies of CND Today published between 1992 and 2001. Other materials in the Collection about nuclear disarmament (Xd) can be found on the catalogue here.

Josie Mulligan (Commonweal volunteer).

A full list of over 1,700 magazines, newsletters, bulletins and journals that are in the Collection can be found here.