Membership swells as new leaders raise nuclear stakes

CND HAS seen its membership swell since Jeremy Corbyn and Donald Trump put the issue back on the agenda.

“People are now worried that we’re returning to the era of being on a bit of a nuclear precipice,” said Prof Paul Rogers of Bradford University.

He said the influence of the movement could be measured by the fact that of 195 member states of the UN, only eight had nuclear weapons.

“It’s eight and a half, if you count North Korea as a half,” Prof Rogers said. “But we haven’t had the proliferation that people feared.

“We’re away from the terrible period of the Cold War, when there was a tiny risk of all-out catastrophe – but people are now worried about the spread and the risk of smaller nuclear wars.

“So I don’t think we’re out of the woods on this one yet.”