Brighton Peace and Environment Centre
What is Trident?
Trident is the UK's nuclear weapons system. Developed by the US during the Cold War, it commenced in 1994 with a 30 year lifespan. The UK stockpiles around 200 operational nuclear warheads. These launch from US Trident missiles on four submarines. Each warhead has around eight times the explosive power of the Hiroshima bomb which killed over 200, 000 people.
Sunday June 13th 2004 over 600 people came together to create a human Peace of Art on Hove Lawns, near the Angel of Peace statue, as part of a Peace Messenger Event.
The Argus printed the aerial photograph on page 05. It was fantastic to see so many Brightonians out waving their hands for peace on a sunny Sunday.
Peace Messenger is a group of volunteers dedicated to organising community peace events and developing peace awareness and education. At the moment, war is a more organised religion than peace, and it is up us to create a culture of peace. We hope Art Peace will encourage groups and individuals to join in with preparing a Peace Picnic next year and a One-Day Festival in 2006.
Sussex Peace Alliance (SPA) is the successor to Sussex Alliance for Nuclear Disarmament, which was set up in 1980. It is a broad alliance of peace groups concerned with new thinking about peace and disarmament.
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Brighton Peace & Environment Centre,
Address: 39-41 Surrey Street, Brighton, BN1 3PB. United Kingdom.
Tel: UK (01273) 766610
Email: info@bpec.org
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