Videos from London CND's 2019 Conference

If you missed our conference in January, no fear - all the sessions were recorded on video and are available now on YouTube. You can watch them all below!

Palestinian Ambassador Dr Hasan Zumlot

First session: "Trump's Finger On The Nuclear Trigger". CND London Conference, 2019. Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, Dr. Husam Zomlot. Ambassador from 1 minute 40 secs.

Dr Hasam Zumlot Q&A

CND London Conference 2019, "Trump's Finger On The Nuclear Button". Video 2 of 8. Dr Husam Zumlot, Palestinian Ambassador to UK.

Catherine West MP and Ann Feltham from CAAT

Video 3 of 8, CND London Conference 2019, "Trump's Finger On The Nuclear Trigger". Catherine West, MP and Ann Feltham, Campaign Against the Arms Trade, (CAAT...

Video interview with Medea Benjamin of Code Pink USA

US women in action. Skype interview with Code Pink USA, for CND London conference 2019, "Trump's Finger On The Nuclear Button".


Rae Street, former CND Vice Chair, and Carol Turner, London CND

Session 2, "Trashing The Treaties", CND London Conference 2019, "Trump's Finger On The Nuclear Trigger". Rae from 1 minute 57 secs., Carol from 15m 48s.

Rebecca Johnson, ICAN, and Bruce Kent, CND

Video 6 of 8. CND London Conference 2019, "Trump's Finger on the Nuclear Button". Rebecca Johnson, the founder and executive director of The Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy, and Green Party spokesperson on Peace and Disarmament. Questions/answers from 17m 30s. Followed by Bruce Kent, Gen Sec CND 1980 - 1985.

Hannah Kemp-Welch, CND, and Sara Medi Jones, acting CND Vice-Chair

CND London Conference 2019, "Trump's Finger on the Nuclear Button". Third session, "Think Global, Act Local". Sara from 2 minutes 53 secs.

Jonathan Bartley, Green Party Co-Leader, and Nobu Ono, SOAS CND

Video 8 of 8, CND London Conference 2019, "Trump's Finger on the Nuclear Trigger". 37 m 04s; Nobu from 7 minutes 28 secs.



ICAN Cities Appeal: lobby your council!

ICAN have launched their Cities Appeal: a global call from towns and cities across the world in support of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

You can write to your local council today to ask them to support the appeal using the text below!

A new nuclear arms race? The INF treaty explained

What is the INF treaty - and why does it matter?

This morning, we woke up to the news that Donald Trump is pulling the US out of the INF treaty. So what?

Read our explainer to find out why it’s actually a big deal.

What is it?

The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF for short) was signed in Washington in 1987 between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, then General Secretary of the USSR. The treaty put an end to an arms race in which both the US and the USSR had deployed nuclear missiles all across Europe.

The INF outlawed all missiles with ranges of 500–1,000 kilometers (short-range) and 1,000–5,500 km (intermediate-range), and by May 1991, 2,692 such missiles were eliminated.

Why does Donald Trump want the US to pull out?

In October last year, Trump announced his intention to withdraw from the treaty on the grounds that Russia is not complying with it. The Trump administration claims that Russia is developing a new Cruise missile, which violates the treaty.

What happens next?

Today Trump confirmed that the US will be leaving the treaty. The US will suspending its compliance on Saturday, and will serve formal notice that it will withdraw altogether in six months.

If Russia does not destroy its new missiles within that six-month window, the US will start to develop its own intermediate-range missiles. This is likely to lead to a dangerous nuclear arms race.

Use CND’s tool to call on the foreign secretary to save the treaty.