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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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CND
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(Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) Pressure group founded in London in 1958, after Britain had tested its first H-bomb in the Pacific the previous year. In April 1958 the first Aldermaston march took place; 9,000 people walked all or part of the 80km/50m from London to the government's Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at *Aldermaston in Berkshire, in a protest repeated as an annual event for several subsequent years. The chief aims of CND have been to achieve *unilateral disarmament by Britain and the removal of American nuclear bases. The ending of the Cold War deprived CND of some of its support. But it has from the start had the subsidiary aim of progressive non-nuclear disarmament, and it has campaigned against *nuclear power. In the early 1990s the organization had about 60,000 members. Its famous symbol (a circle, containing a shape like an aircraft with swept back wings) has become widely used internationally; it was designed by Gerald Holton for the first Aldermaston march.
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