Protest over Teutates Treaty
Trident protesters join forces with the French peace movement
Christians active against the replacement of Trident crossed the English Channel this week to join forces with the French peace movement in Dijon. They have gone to support French peace activists who are protesting against the Centre de Recherche Nucleaire at Valduc. It is located just north of Dijon.
In 2010 the UK and France signed the Teutates Treaty. Both countries agreed to share advanced facilities at Valduc and Aldermaston, in Berkshire, to research nuclear weapons for the next fifty years.
Caroline Gilbert, an organiser, said: ‘The French radiology facility (Teutates EPURE) will be at Valduc, in France. The UK Teutates Technological Development Centre (TDC Facility) will be built at Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment. The radiographic/hydro-dynamics facilities will permit design of a new generation of nuclear weapons’.
On Sunday 4 August the UK group will walk with their French colleagues round the Centre du Recherche Nucleaire in Valduc and hang paper cranes on the fence in memory of Sadako. She is the young Japanese girl who died of radiation sickness from the Hiroshima atomic bomb – before she could make the thousand cranes she believed would save her.
An International Fast for Peace will take place in Paris, Aldermaston and Berlin from 6 August, the date of the dropping of the Hiroshima bomb, until 9 August, when the bomb on Nagasaki was dropped.
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