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  • The Aldermaston marches were anti-nuclear weapons demonstrations in the 1950s and 1960s, taking place on Easter weekend between the Atomic Weapons Research...
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    (the Aldermaston Marches) which took the form of marches from Aldermaston to London (apart from in 1958, when the march went from London to Aldermaston)....
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    Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament's Aldermaston Marches march from Trafalgar Square, London. The first Aldermaston March was conceived by the Direct Action...
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    Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (category Organizations established in 1958)
    Between 1958 and 1965 it organised the Aldermaston March, which was held over the Easter weekend from the Atomic Weapons Establishment near Aldermaston to...
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  • thousands of people. The Aldermaston March was subsequently run as an annual event by CND. The DAC organised meetings, marches, vigils and pickets, campaigned...
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  • Partisan Coffee House (category 1958 establishments in England)
    Branch officers who monitored conversations there. The early Aldermaston Marches (1958–60) were partly planned in the basement of the Partisan, and the...
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    Anti-nuclear movement in the United Kingdom (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from March 2022)
    CND's Aldermaston Marches began in 1958 and continued into the late 1960s when tens of thousands of people took part in the four-day marches. One significant...
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  • paved the way for the much larger Aldermaston Marches begun by the Direct Action Committee against nuclear war in 1958 and continued by CND. Indeed, Operation...
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    Establishment close to Aldermaston in Berkshire, England, to demonstrate their opposition to nuclear weapons. The Aldermaston marches continued into the late...
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    January 2008. Retrieved 15 March 2007. Baylis 2008, p. 462. Wade 2008, p. 209. Wade 2008, p. 210. "Plutonium and Aldermaston – an historical account" (PDF)...
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  • for any purpose whatsoever. These marches proved to be the forerunners of the much larger Aldermaston Marches in 1958 and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament...
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    Operation Grapple (category 1958 in the United Kingdom)
    Saxby from Aldermaston was placed in charge of the balloon crews, who commenced training at RAF Cardington in Bedfordshire in January 1958. Inflating...
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    We Are the Lambeth Boys 1958 (documentary) March to Aldermaston 1959 (documentary) about the first of the Aldermaston Marches Adventure Story (1961) (6...
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  • In 1958, he was working for the Ministry of Education. On 21 February 1958 he designed the nuclear disarmament logo for the first Aldermaston March, organised...
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  • involved just 35 people and paved the way for the much larger Aldermaston Marches that began in 1958. In 1957 Hugh Brock was one of a committee that arranged...
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    four days to Aldermaston, Berkshire, site of the Atomic Weapons Establishment, manufacturer of the UK's nuclear weapons. During the march, the peace symbol...
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    1958 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in February 1958: King Mahendra...
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    Ripple Rock (category Explosions in 1958)
    scientists at the United Kingdom's Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston, which sent a delegation to Canada and set up various monitoring instruments...
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  • created. 4–7 April – The first protest march for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament from Trafalgar Square to Aldermaston, Berkshire, demanding a ban on nuclear...
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    early history described the image as "a visual adhesive to bind the [Aldermaston] March and later the whole Campaign together ... probably the most powerful...
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