Britain must take steps to reduce its nuclear weapons
08 June 2010
Earlier this week Caroline Lucas MP co-signed a letter in The Guardian calling for nuclear disarmament.
We welcome the recent agreement at the nuclear non-proliferation treaty review conference in New York (1) calling on the nuclear weapon states to "undertake further efforts to reduce and ultimately eliminate all types of nuclear weapons" and to "accelerate concrete progress on the steps leading to nuclear disarmament".
The British government cannot stand aside and ignore these commitments. It must now ensure that the forthcoming strategic defence and security review includes the Trident weapons system and considers the non-nuclear option. Building on the international agreement, the British government must take concrete steps towards a world without nuclear weapons, including support for a nuclear weapons convention, which would ban nuclear weapons in the same way that chemical and biological weapons have been banned. Our goal must be the total disarmament of all nuclear weapons - and we can start with our own.
Caroline Lucas MP, Kate Hudson CND, Sheila Gilmore MP, Ian Murray MP, John Cryer MP, Julian Huppert MP, Eilidh Whiteford MP, Baroness Susan Miller, Mairead Maguire Nobel Peace Prize 1976, John Sulston Nobel Medicine Prize 2002, Rebecca Johnson Acronym Institute, General Hugh Beach, Thomas McMahon Bishop of Brentwood, Rt Rev Stephen Cottrell Bishop of Reading
Notes
1. See: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/28/nuclear-non-proliferation-treaty-un
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