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From Operation Gandhi to the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War (DAC)
on Sunday 22 March 2015
on Sunday 22 March 2015
The Peace Pledge Union (PPU) issues the first, widely distributed leaflet against the atomic bomb in Britain, just a few weeks after the announcement of the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima. It organises a mass rally, ’Against the Bomb’ in early 1949, and the first mass anti-nuclear weapons demonstration in Trafalgar Square in 1950.
In 1949, at its Steps to Peace conference, a number of study groups were set up. The brief of one group was to examine the philosophical and practical (…)