Nuclear weapons

Mothers of the Revolution review – emotional return to Greenham Common

With stirring testimony on offer from the organisers of the groundbreaking women’s peace camp, this doc doesn’t need its superfluous dramatic recreations

Leslie Felperin

13, Oct, 2021 @12:00 PM

‘Vigil portrayed us as malevolent robots’ – submariners torpedo the BBC’s nautical hit

Fifteen minutes to launch a nuke? Rampant drugs and hairspray? No beer in the torpedo hatches? As the tense thriller concludes, navy experts scuttle its boatload of mistakes

Stuart Jeffries

25, Sep, 2021 @7:00 AM

Aukus: Australia sent ‘extremely satisfied’ letter hours before axing French contract

French Naval Group to invoice Australia for abruptly cancelling submarine contract, says CEO

Daniel Hurst in Canberra, Angelique Chrisafis and Kim Willsher in Paris

23, Sep, 2021 @4:30 PM

‘Pushing the nuclear envelope’: North Korea’s missile diplomacy

Analysis: Fear and uncertainty of the Obama years could return as Kim Jong-un revives nuclear ambitions

Justin McCurry in Tokyo

22, Sep, 2021 @11:57 AM

Making waves in the Pacific: how Boris Johnson’s Global Britain went rogue

Defence pact with Australia and the US increases chance of confrontation with China and spurs nuclear proliferation

Simon Tisdall

19, Sep, 2021 @6:30 AM

China warns US-UK-Australia pact could ‘hurt their own interests’

Aukus described as ‘exclusionary’ amid French anger at scrapping of $90bn submarine deal with Australia

Helen Davidson in Taipei and Gavin Blair in Tokyo

16, Sep, 2021 @9:25 AM

Top general feared Trump would launch nuclear war, Woodward book reports

General Milley worried about Trump’s ‘trigger point’ after the election and monitored him to prevent catastrophic military strike

Martin Pengelly in New York

14, Sep, 2021 @5:13 PM

State surveillance under the spotlight | Letter

Letter: The latest revelation that the police had a spy in the CND headquarters is further proof of the unnecessary monitoring of legal, peaceful activities, writes former national council member Julian Harber

Letters

14, Sep, 2021 @3:48 PM

CND calls for answers from inquiry over 1980s police infiltration

Demand follows confirmation by inquiry that undercover officer was planted in campaign HQ from 1981 to 1984

Rob Evans

12, Sep, 2021 @1:46 PM

Iran agrees deal with UN on monitoring of nuclear programme

Talks aim to revitalise stalled inspections process and could ease path towards lifting of US sanctions

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

12, Sep, 2021 @12:59 PM

Greenham Common at 40: We came to fight war, and stayed for the feminism

In 1982, Julie Bindel joined 30,000 women ‘embracing the base’ in protest over nuclear arms. Here she recounts the pivotal role the protest played in their lives

Julie Bindel

29, Aug, 2021 @7:30 AM

Britain’s military must learn from its mistakes

Letters: Britain’s armed forces are dodging responsibility for failings in Afghanistan and Iraq, argues Prof Paul Dixon. RC Pennington fears military history is doomed to repeat itself. Plus letters from Margaret Phelps, Diana Francis and Jim Golcher