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Julian Borger in Washington

Fresh effort to ban the bomb as new generation bids for nuclear-free world

Various flags and banners supporting CND and peace are fixed to the air base's fence on May 21, 2022 in Lakenheath, England. The demonstration is to protest against reports that the US intends to resite nuclear bombs at the base. After sustained protest nuclear weapons were removed from Lakenheath in 2008.
A new nuclear disarmament movement is drawing inspiration from other forms of civil society action. Photograph: Martin Pope/Getty Images

As nuclear dangers gather momentum three decades after the cold war, a disarmament movement is rising to meet them, with a new generation of activists.

In the late 50s and early 60s, and then again in the early 80s, when the US and the Soviet Union were pointing their missiles at each other in Europe, there were mass street protests against governments making plans for global annihilation.

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