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Closed System

“Thinking the Unthinkable. Herman Kahn, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 25s.” read more

Cut Off from the Sun

“Kennedy came into office denouncing the missile gap. The only gap turned out to be that between the bogies created by Kennedy’s campaign team and reality. It was quickly realised that America had, and would retain in any forseeable future, an overwhelming superiority in nuclear strike power.” read more

The Nuclear Option

“The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: Leonard Beaton and John Maddox. Published for the Institute of Strategic Studies by Chatto and Windus, 18s. 210 pp.” read more

Accidental War

“The SAC admitted that for ‘four minutes’ on last November 24th, during the height of the Berlin crisis, it seemed as if the United States might be under a nuclear attack. The SAC issued a global alert to all its stations when a key electronic-system failed in . . .” read more

The Last Quarter of an Hour

“Peace, it seems, is coming in Algeria. But with it, one may fear, a frightful showdown between the French civilian and military extremists and the French government—which, in turn, may make the actual implementation of peace more difficult. And it isn’t even a clear showdown, with clean lines . . .” read more

Morality and the Bomb

“Nuclear Weapons and Christian Conscience. Edited by Walter Stein and with a Foreword by Archbishop Roberts, S. J. The Merlin Press. 12s. 6d.” read more

Disarmament

“Dear Sir,” read more

Disarmament Through Strength

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Editorial on CND

“Perhaps the only lesson to be learned from four years of campaigning for Nuclear Disarmament is that there is no simple way in which a political campaign can calculate its effect upon people and Governments. It eludes all the fixed categories of "politics". From the Central Hall meeting . . .” read more

Against Which Bomb?

“modern weaponry advances faster than any other branch of technology. Already the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki have joined the pike and the catapult as military museum pieces. But the advance (if one may so describe it) has not been entirely, or even mainly, in the . . .” read more

The Trial

“This article discusses the “underground networks”, the right of French students to refuse call-up, the “Treason Trials” and the support for resistance to the Algerian War among the Left.” read more

Photo Supplement on Algeria

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The Declaration in Support of the Right of Students Who Refuse to Fight in Algeria

“The text of the Declaration supporting the right of French students to refuse call-up in the Algerian War, signed originally by 121 intellectuals” read more

Countermarching to Armageddon

“long before the custard-pies started to fly around at the Summit, the preparations for the Countermarch were well in hand. The 100,000 Easter demonstrators had scarcely drifted away from Trafalgar Square before the Top People’s CND (Committee for Natopolitan Defence) was in session, getting everything ready for . . .” read more

Towards Aldermaston

“He (Mr. Watkinson) questioned whether the Opposition’s Censure motion was on the Government or on the whole NATO Alliance. He and the Government believed the NATO Alliance was and must remain the core to our defence strategy.” read more

CND after the Elections

“it is a new situation for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. The General Election marked the end of the Campaign’s first phase of life, and further meaningful existence depends considerably on whether the new situation is recognised as such. In less than two years the emphasis in . . .” read more

CND After the Election

““what should we do now?” asked the secretary of a live Lancashire group of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.” read more