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Theresa Green
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It’s a regular circus
The nuclear weapons were canvassing for votes at 16MU
And then they go off to somewhere secret that everyone knows about
entdh
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is it? wow....i never saw it before. they ran straight into the traffic jam at Redhill roundabout! which split up the convoy a little. I wonder why they move them around by road? air would be quicker/easier?
Theresa Green
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Gramaisc
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Only one 'r' in Albemarle.
Gramaisc
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They're regularly dragged the length of the country and back again, from Faslane to the Home Counties, for a squirt of WD40 by people who don't want to live up near Glasgow.
I surprised one coming out of Swynnerton once. They also surprised me. I was driving a hand-painted, green 2CV with a big hole in the exhaust.
There was considerable consternation amongst those entrusted with the security of this convoy, but I roared through the centre of it before they could take any action against what must have looked like a potential tree-hugger Kamikaze attack.
Theresa Green
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There's helpline and a friends of nuke bus website
joshua
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Nothing wrong with a bit of "instant sunshine" you will be grateful for in the coming winter monthsAhhh you shouldn't protest about nukes. They may well be the only way we prevent a climate catastrophe !!! (albeit, we'll just be exchanging one catastrophe for another ... but one has to maintain standards.)
The Hawk
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Yes there was, I knew some of the protesters.
BobClay
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In 1971 serving on the general cargo ship 'MV Weybank' we loaded all around the East Coast of the US bound for New Zealand. Passing through Panama we began the long plod across the Pacific for Kiwi.
One day I took some navigation warnings about a French nuclear test on one of the French Polynesian islands, with a fairly detailed description of a huge area of ocean to be avoided. Although we were some way south of this area, the Old Man decided to set a more southerly course anyway with the comment: 'The further away we are from those f****** things the better.' (There had been some pretty severe under-estimations of bomb yields during the Pacific testing in the 50's and 60's, including the USA's Castle Bravo test where 5 Megatons became 15 Megatons due to an unforeseen reaction with Lithium. This became something of a major disaster with some islands still uninhabitable due to fall out. All of this was still fresh in the minds of protesting groups at the time.)
I think it put a couple of days on our journey, but nobody objected, including the ship owners Bank Line.
Only time I ever took a nav warning about hydrogen bombs (or thermo-nuclear bombs as they're now known.) Can't say I'm sorry about that ..
One day I took some navigation warnings about a French nuclear test on one of the French Polynesian islands, with a fairly detailed description of a huge area of ocean to be avoided. Although we were some way south of this area, the Old Man decided to set a more southerly course anyway with the comment: 'The further away we are from those f****** things the better.' (There had been some pretty severe under-estimations of bomb yields during the Pacific testing in the 50's and 60's, including the USA's Castle Bravo test where 5 Megatons became 15 Megatons due to an unforeseen reaction with Lithium. This became something of a major disaster with some islands still uninhabitable due to fall out. All of this was still fresh in the minds of protesting groups at the time.)
I think it put a couple of days on our journey, but nobody objected, including the ship owners Bank Line.
Only time I ever took a nav warning about hydrogen bombs (or thermo-nuclear bombs as they're now known.) Can't say I'm sorry about that ..
Theresa Green
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Because birds are people too