A major blockade and protest at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) at Aldermaston near Reading to mark UN Disarmament Week. The Aldermaston Big Blockade, organised by Trident Ploughshares and supported by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), Block the Builders and the Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp [5] is seeking to disrupt work on existing Trident nuclear warheads and the facilities that will enable the development of their successors at Britain’s nuclear weapons research laboratory.
