Nuclear Information Service (NIS) has written to the Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police to complain about police surveillance of guests attending a recent screening of the documentary film 'Countdown to Zero' organised by NIS. ... more

The Nuclear Information Service (NIS) is questioning the reasons for the arrest of Katia Zatuliveter, research assistant for Mike Hancock MP, who was arrested last week on suspicion of being a Russian spy.

NIS works regularly with Mike Hancock on areas of mutual interest, which include defence issues and the military nuclear programme.  Many of the Parliamentary Questions asked by Mike Hancock about the UK's nuclear weapons and nuclear powered submarines were suggested by NIS as potential lines of inquiry into the costs and safety of the UK's nuclear weapons programme, and to help establish whether the UK is sticking to its international legal obligations under the Non Proliferation Treaty.  

These are legitimate areas of public interest, and the suggestion that questions about the UK's nuclear weapons programme should be considered as a suspicious or unreasonable act is quite unacceptable in a democratic society. ... more

A Judicial Review Appeal of the High Court decision on AWE Bylaws in March 2008 is to be heard in the High Court of the Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand, London on Wednesday, 26th November 2008.

Ministry of Defence takes 17 months to prepare a case doomed to failure.

In Newbury Magistrates Court, a District Judge dismissed a case of trespass on a nuclear licensed site against an Aldermaston peace campaigner. The prosecution under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act(SOCPA), failed to criminalise lawful protest.
Juliet McBride was arrested inside the perimeter fence at the Atomic Weapons Establishment in March 2007, during a no Trident replacement protest. ... more

NIS supported a legal challenge brought by Kay Tabernacle from Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp (AWPC) on the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) decision to introduce byelaws which deny AWPC their right to freedom of assembly at the 22-year-old monthly camp. Following a 2008 hearing, a byelaw against putting anything on AWE’s fence was quashed but the women’s case lost on the Byelaws against camping and is to be appealed. ... more

Women from Aldermaston Women's Peace Camp gathered with banners outside the High Court on the Strand at 09.30 before going into court to listen intently to the proceedings. ... more

A legal challenge to byelaws at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) Aldermaston will be brought by Public Interest Lawyers on behalf of a member of the Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp (AWPC) at the High Court in London on 1 February 2008. The claimant is seeking a judicial review of the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) decision to introduce byelaws which deny AWPC their right to freedom of assembly at the 22-year-old monthly camp. ... more