Brian Larkin, coorindator of the Edinburgh Peace and Justice Centre, urges all to become active in the campaign to abolish nuclear weapons

SINCE the fall of the Berlin Wall, the threat posed by nuclear weapons has seemed to recede. Other issues have captured our attention - Iraq, globalisation, and with the ice caps melting, climate change. But with Donald Trump, surrounded by generals, in the White House, and Kim Jong Un seeking to acquire nuclear weapons, the risk of nuclear war is greater than it has ever been.

Scottish CND activist Janet Fenton reports from Oslo, where campaigners are celebrating ICAN's award of the Nobel Peace Prize

ON Monday evening, 300 million television viewers will tune in live to a concert broadcast from this week's Nobel Peace Prize celebrations. 

It is bright and cold here in Oslo, the weather and the landscape viewed from the train that links the airport so efficiently to the city, with its hills and birch and pine, is not so different to Scotland. 

Writer and activist Linda Pearson looks at the business of nuclear weapons and how it can be stopped

IN recent months the world has watched the escalating tensions between North Korea and the US with growing alarm. 

Veteran anti-nuclear activist Brian Quail says two key international developments mean a world without nuclear weapons is closer than ever

ON THE international scene, there have been two momentous events recently impacting on Trident. 

First was the decision made on 7 July by 122 member states of the United Nations (UN) in New York to support a draft treaty banning nuclear weapons. Secondly, there was the award of the Nobel peace prize to ICAN (the International Campaign Against Nuclear weapons) for its work for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

World community expected to push Britain towards ‘rogue nation’ status over Trident weapons system 

A LONG AWAITED BREAKTHROUGH against the nuclear armed states - including the UK - is expected tomorrow [Friday 7 July] by peace campaigners coordinating Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty efforts at the United Nations. 

With the second round of Treaty negotiations underway between 130 states from across the planet, CND Scotland have said that agreement is imminent on the specifics of a ban treaty.

Scotland celebrates anti-nuclear weapons Nobel Peace Prize winners with weekend of countrywide events 

WITH THE NOBEL PRIZE award ceremony set to take place in Norway on Sunday 10 December, where the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Scotland is showing its support with a series of events over the weekend, while a group of Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) activists will travel to the celebrations in Oslo.

Mass signing at Scottish Parliament means all SNP and Greens back new treaty

A CLEAR MAJORITY OF Scottish parliamentarians at Holyrood and Westminster now formally back the United Nations (UN) Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, thanks to a mass signing at the Scottish Parliament on Thursday of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) Parliamentary Pledge of support.

Pledge signed by the first minister urges governments to sign and ratify the UN treaty abolishing nuclear arms

FIRST MINISTER NICOLA STURGEON has become the latest signatory of the parliamentary pledge drafted by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) in support of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

International coalition to target Scottish nuclear sites with “disruptive activity”

THE MOVEMENT TO RID THE WORLD of weapons of mass destruction will set its eyes on Scotland this July as campaigners mark the latest milestone towards their abolition with a series of planned protest events around the British military bases that house the UK Trident weapons system. 

Global unity building to ban weapons of mass destruction with international treaty 

SCOTTISH CAMPAIGNERS will join the global movement to ban nuclear weapons this week in New York as pressure builds on the rogue nuclear states to ditch weapons that threaten the future of life on earth. 

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Ican) has made substantial progress in establishing a Nuclear Ban Treaty, with 123 countries backing progress towards a weapons ban last October at the United Nations. The UK was one of 38 nations opposed.