Edinburgh Peace and Justice Centre

Bride Nuclear Weapons Conventionor NWC for short, (aka KA) married Scotland, (aka
Alex) at the start of Scotland's Peace Walk in Gretna. The wedding was conducted by the rev Ainslie Walton who had travelled specially from his Glasgow parish to conduct the wedding. He said “As a Church of Scotland minister I am expressing the opposition of my church to the existence because they are unchristian and amoral from every point of view.”
In attendance were the mother of the bride, Women's International League for Peace and
Freedom, WILPF for short (aka Janet). Best man Non Proliferation Treaty NPT (aka Marcus) and witnessed by matron of honour Nukewatch (aka Jill) at the ceremony in which the couple made vows to love and uphold each other for better, for worse, in sickness and in health, for richer for poorer till the end of our earthly lives - preferably not by mushroom cloud.

NWC promised that Scotland would be protected from:
-prosecution under international law
-possible terrorist attack
-waste of resources
-the shame of moral evil.

In return Scotland promised to:
-forgo nuclear weapons for ever
-oppose all nuclear bases on Scotland's soil
-support the efforts of NWC
-and work for a nuclear free future.

The deal was sealed with a spirited if less-than-tuneful rendition of Don't You Hear The Bombs Thunder and after the ceremony the bride and groom set off to start Footprints for Peace 2010 Scotland;s Peace Walk, following the routes taken carrying nuclear warheads in and out of Scotland. The march off was accompanied with the age old singing of We're Going to Keep on Walking Forward with great gusto rather than tonal quality.