Trident, Greenpeace And The Non-Prolification Treaty

EDM number 1008 in 1994-95, proposed by Alan Simpson on 20/04/1995.

That this House recognises that the Greenpeace action which cut off nuclear warhead production at AWE Aldermaston on Easter Monday achieved, temporarily, what the Non-Proliferation Treaty has failed to persuade Britain to do for 25 years; congratulates the German Foreign Minister at the Non-Proliferation Treaty Conference in New York for proposing a ban on the recycling of weapon grade fissionable material from old warheads; and calls on the United Kingdom Government to halt permanently the pumping of radioactive liquid waste from Aldermaston into the Thames which would, as a specific commitment to the Non-Proliferation Treaty negotiations, stop the British production of Trident warheads.

This motion has been signed by a total of 23 MPs.