Pages about: Trident

Don't Replace Trident

We believe that no one has the right to use [nuclear] weapons in his defence or to ask another person to use them on his behalf. To rely on the possession of nuclear weapons as a deterrent is faithless; to use them is a sin.

Meeting for Sufferings, 1955, 24:4, Quaker faith & practice…(read more)

Submission on Trident

Defence Select Committee Inquiry into the future of Trident

The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) is committed to the peaceful political resolution of intractable disputes within the international rule of law. We are opposed to the development, maintenance, or use of nuclear weapons as an instrument of international policy. While we welcome the existence of this inquiry we are disappointed that neither MOD Ministers nor their senior civil servants have given evidence on an issue where Government perceptions of strategic imperatives are so crucial to a decision.…(read more)

Submission to Defence Select Committee on the future of Trident

1 Introduction

1.1 The Religious Society of Friends in Britain is a religious denomination with 16,000 members in 470 worshipping communities. We are committed to working for peaceful and effective responses to violence and social injustice.

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Trident - What you can do

Here is a list of action points - things that we can all do to oppose the replacement of Trident and promote a nuclear weapons-free Britain:…(read more)