How is Britain's Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) doing these days asks Lawrence S. Wittner? He answers that it is doing very well indeed and describes the recent resurgence in members and media attention.

The world is nuking up again, to new and alarming levels. So why are disarmament campaigners so optimistic? Jess Worth spots a window of opportunity.

The Peace Chain is a peaceful protest against the UK Government's plan to build a new nuclear weapon system ('Trident replacement'), which would be at Faslane until 2055. Scottish CND will be forming a chain of people and banners along the main perimeter fence at Faslane, which is about 2000m long. Watch the video here - and join them there on June 14th.

The ubiquitous peace symbol turns 50 years old this year. In this excerpt from the new, lavishly illustrated book Peace: 50 Years of Protest, Barry Miles describes the origin of the symbol in the anti-nuclear politics in England in the 1950s.

Kate Hudson summarises a year of developments on Trident replacement

As anti-nuclear campaigners return to Aldermaston this weekend, Pat Arrowsmith looks back at the first protest there 50 years ago. Yuri Prasad reports.

Fifty years after the historic march on Alderston, a protest camp at the atomic weapons based has been outlawed in yet another blow to civil liberties, writes Kim Sengupta.