Edinburgh Peace and Justice Resource Centre

Scottish CND engages in a variety of anti-nuclear work specific to Scotland, and in collaboration with British CND

Trident is the prime focus of our campaigning, as all British nuclear weapons are based here in Scotland, where the 4 Vanguard class nuclear-powered and nuclear-armed submarines operate out of Faslane on the Gareloch. Each of these submarines carry 48 Trident warheads (bombs) each of which is approximately 8 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

Although Westminster considers Trident to be a reserved issue, the Scottish Parliament voted last year to oppose Trident, and calls upon Westminster to hear them. This gives us a strong political position to dislodge Trident from Scotland.