had these weapons, and 0+0=0, even the most sophisticated statistical analysis of the figures was Shipbuilding WITH THE GOVERNMENT clamping down on expenditure for all nationalised industries, there is one place where the rules are to be relaxed. Vickers shipbuilding at Barrow-on-Furness has been given the go-ahead to build a covered shipyard. Why the change of mind do I hear you ask...
Toys for the Boys EARLIER THIS MONTH the British Army took delivery of its first Challenger Main Battle Tank. The Challenger tank is the army's first new battle tank for 20 years. each tank and it is planned to give the army 250 of them to play with.
Denationalisation WHILE ON THE Challenger is built at the Leeds Royal Ordinance made a cool f60 million profit. This is of course a Factory. heinous crime. you've guessed it - hive them off.
Look Out!
LAST THURSDAY journalists were given a conducted tour of Greenham Heseltine. Apart from saying that faith in the reliability of (which is more than the people in the US who live near the test range have!), he announced that will be security perimeter is patrolled allocated to the USAFE command. already in the process of equipping its base security police with machine guns, mortars and light tanks, so the mind boggles at the thought of what further upgrading means. Tactical perhaps!
*28 March-2 April International Peace Studies Week (for students) at Pimlico School, London. * Thur 31 Mar 12 hour blockade of Greenham Common (women only) and Burghfield Royal Ordinance Factory (sixed. * Fri 1 April 14 mile human chain from Greenham Com mon to Burghfield via Tolowel Ov * Sat 2 April Scottish CND March in Glasgow. Starts in a festival at Aldermaston.
George Square at 11.00am, and ends at Carnival in Kelvingrove Park * Sat 2 April GLC Bunkèr Party. 7.30pm at Civic Centre, North Peckham. *Sun 3 April GLC Easter Parade, featuring specially commissioned 'Peace Float'. Starts Battersea 3.00pm. *Sun 3 April Demonstration at Faslane Nuclear Sub base * Thur 7 April Aberdeen CND meeting discussing END.
Starts 7.30pm at 24 Adelphi (off Union St), Aberdeen.
+8-10 April Campaign Against the tional supporters meeting, Newton *8-10 April International Peace Camp at Wycombe Bob Saunders Bourne End 22624.
*8-10 April Nuclear Free North Atlantic Conference Witches neare.
* Fri 8 April Film: 'Guide to Armageddon', by Orpington CND.
Street. Orpington, Kent.
*Sat 9 April GLC Bunker Party; 7.30pm Riverdale Hall, Lewisham.
* Wed 13 CND on Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Power and Sizewell 'B", speaker Chris Church.
Pub, Station Yard, Twickenham, Mddx.
*Sat 16 April GLC Nuclear Bunker Party.
Langdon Park Community Centre, Tower Hamlets.
* 23-24 April North West Conterence against the missiles Cruise Missiles' at Brent Town Hall. Speakers: Ken Livingstone, Pat Arrowsmith, Tim Webb and women from Papolo 01-047951 or Write o Box 332 Niro SNick. Details/ Well it might Trident submarines will be built in The tank is a snip at £1.5m for SUBJECT of tanks, the Last year the Royal Ordinance Factories and so there are plans afoot to Common Dase he had every the guidance (systems stepped up. The US Air Force personnel nuclear weapons, Aldermaston. Starts 1.30pm, Park at Touse, i Friends Meeting House Terrace, Glasgow G3. Details contact (01)-278 organised At 7.30pm, New Village Hall, High April Meeting organised by Twickenham starts y.0pm al tne Albally 7.30pm at London Labour Movement 'Jobs not Bombs Not.
/credentials tion of the arms race. ORECLIE TOT culminated with the defeat of the US in Vietnam.
Armed To deal with this problem the 'Nixon Doctrine' was introduced. The 'Nixon Doctrine' was prongea orlensive. Un vue hand it envisaged a series heavily armed imperialist client states to provide local 'police force' (for instance South Vietnam, Iran, and Israel).
On the other an.
made neutralise the Chinese and was Soviet bureaucracies through the diplomatic offensive of 'detente'.
of the Carter administration this nolicv was in a shambles Client states were collaps. ing around Carter's ears and it had become obvious that the Soviet Union lacked the capacity to contain the national liberation struggles breaking out particularly in Central America.
Reagan's election programme featured the most be funny if it weren't so tragically dangerous.
Reagan's fantastic scenario for mobilising the scientific community to construel ray-guns in space, laser beams and the rest was the very opposite of rendering nuclear war impossible.
It is a scheme for the most incredible escalaIf achieved, it would give the United States over 5 was de spenaing a tweill Or it.
Conventional explosives are getting more plosives are getting smaller powerful and nuclear and more specific in their effects. On the nuclear side, the neutron bomb is typical this trend, minimising the blast effect and maximising radiation conventional weapons the US 'Daisy weapons. systello makes it the linked to the drive for is the struggle voke the most massive escalation of the arms race, with both sides working frantically to build weapons of the most destructive kind.
I's a plan to avoid dealing with disarmaarguing that nuclear war is being rendered impossible ... by stepping up the arms race to the most frantic level seen so far.
Part and parcel of Reagan's insane proposals was an alleged massive Soviet build up in Cuba and Nicaragua. This amounted to an airfield and Soviet MIGs in Cuba. To combat these you obviously need laser beams in space.
ALAN LENTON describes how US military strategy from now until the end of the centur has been centred on the first use of nuelear attempl Is intervene anvwhere in the woll Air Land Battle Doctrine emphasises seizing the initiative, designed around small, nuclear. equipped forces The logical outcome of the doctrine is the use of preemptive strike.
Air Land Doctrine not only advises early strikes, but specifies that they should be deep in enemy territory.
The sheer scale of the US war drive is difficult to at first sight, but once its political essence is understood neutralise the Soviet Union, and to directly in. tervene in the process of the colonial revolution -then it becomes easier to cope with its dimensions.
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The plans revealed last week by Ronald Reagan to construct a 'shield around the United States "render nuclear war impossible' monstrous use of the big lie technique. It would
invulnerablity to Soviet attack, while of course leaving the Soviet Union open to US attack. The whole multi-billion dollar nonsense would pro-