Campaign briefings Archives

26 Nov 2025

No to British Nuke Jets – Stop nuclear expansion

Without any parliamentary debate, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Britain’s purchase of 12 US F-35A nuclear-capable fighter jets at the NATO summit in June 2025. This decision marks a very significant expansion in the country’s nuclear capability, enabling Britain to launch nuclear weapons from both the sea and air.

1 Dec 2025

The UK’s purchase of F-35A jets: legal opinion

CND has commissioned a new legal opinion which has found that Britain’s plans to expand its nuclear weapons programme by purchasing nuclear-capable F-35A fighter jets is in breach of its disarmament commitments under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. In the joint opinion, international law experts Professor Christine Chinkin and Dr Louise Arimatsu lay out a case that Britain’s purchase of these nuclear-capable jets puts Britain in clear breach of its obligations under article VI of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

3 Jun 2025

UK new nuclear

A briefing by Prof Steve Thomas & Dr Paul Dorfman on the latest on nuclear power developments in the UK.

20 Apr 2022

Nuclear power: not the answer to climate change

In the midst of both a climate crisis and energy crisis, the calls for increased production of nuclear power are getting louder. But this would be a mistake - nuclear power is not the answer to climate change. Find out more in this briefing.

30 Jul 2025

RAF Lakenheath: have US nuclear weapons returned to Britain?

CND condemns any return of United States nuclear weapons to RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk. This briefing explains the base's history and looks at reports that US nuclear weapons are returning.

20 Mar 2024

Special nuclear flights between the US and UK: the dangers involved

Despite claiming to have an independent nuclear weapons system, for more than sixty years Britain and the United States have been transferring and sharing technical information, nuclear materials, and warhead components for use in each other’s nuclear weapons programmes. One important way in which transfers of nuclear materials and technology are carried out between Britain and the US is through special flights into and out of Royal Air Force (RAF) Brize Norton, near Carterton in Oxfordshire. Read more about these special nuclear flights in this briefing, written in association with Nukewatch.