An exhibition marking 40 years since the Wales was declared Nuclear free, will visit Bangor between 22-29 April.
The threat from nuclear weapons and nuclear accidents has returned with a vengeance during the Ukraine War. Even before the current hostilities, both Russia and the USA were ‘modernising’ their weapons of mass destruction.
Last year Boris Johnson proposed increasing the UK’s nuclear arsenal, in breach of the UN’s nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). We now learn that plans are also being made to upgrade military bunkers at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, to accommodate new US nuclear weapons.
We’ve been here before, which is why a small CND Cymru exhibition currently touring Wales is so timely. In 1982, with the Clwyd Declaration of a Nuclear-Free Wales, all the, then 8, County Councils in Wales voted against nuclear weapons being stationed here in Wales.
The exhibition celebrates that landmark decision 40 years on and urges support for the UN’s 2021 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW, a global ban).
Bangor City Council, Gwynedd County Council and the Senedd have all already voted in support of the TPNW.
The exhibition will be held at the Quaker Meeting House in Dean Street, Bangor, between 22-29 April, and is open to public at times shown below.
EXHIBITION: NUCLEAR-FREE WALES AT 40
Public viewing:
26.4.22 10am – 12 noon
27.4.22 10am-4pm
28.4.22 10am-4pm
Photo: Youngsters at the Bridgend bunker protest in 1982.
