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Our activists joined with regular Bombspotting activists to inspect
three military facilities in Belgium, with the aim of pressuring NATO
member states to renounce their nuclear weapons arsenal. The
inspections took place at Kleine Brogel Air base which houses nuclear
weapons, NATO's Brussels Headquarters and its SHAPE military
headquarters in Mons/Bergen.
Unlike UN Weapons Inspectors, who seem to take a subtle approach to weapons-inspection attire, our activists dressed as 'walking missiles', with "NUCLEAR FREE NATO" emblazoned across them.
Six European countries (Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Turkey, Italy and UK) currently have an estimated 480 American air-launched nuclear bombs based on their territories. Isn't this a bit hypocritical? Our nuclear campaigner Nicky Davies thinks so. "At a time when NATO members are urging countries like Iran to abandon their nuclear ambitions, we have the hypocritical situation in which non-nuclear NATO states play host to US weapons," she said.
There seems to be growing political and public unease amongst a number of European countries towards hosting US nuclear weapons, with Belgium among them. These citizen weapons inspections have grown out of this frustration at the continued secrecy of nuclear weapon states. Interestingly, the Bombspotters are actually upholding International Law, which declares the "threat and use" of all nuclear weapons to be illegal.
"We are calling on NATO to disarm and become a nuclear-free alliance as a first step towards the global abolition of nuclear weapons," said Nicky, from among the walking bombs.
More information
So, you want to be a bombspotter? 'Bombspotting XL' is organised annually by peace and environmental organisations demanding a nuclear free NATO. Check out http://www.bombspotting.be
Listen in!
Live Bombspotting radio...
Radio (the old-fashioned kind) - Radio Panik Brussels (105.4), Radio OSR Soignies-Mons (101.6)
Live stream
ogg (winamp and xmms)
mp3 (windows media player, realplayer, etc...)
Latest Update ... 500 Bombspotters arrested!
500 bomspotters were arrested by police after a thousand activists gathered in Belgium to carry out a citizens nuclear weapons inspection.
A massive police presence greeted inspectors from Greenpeace and Bombspotting at NATO- HQ.
But the Bombspotters won't give up that easily: "We are part of a growing network of people who will continue to conduct these inspections," said our campaigner Nicky Davies.
Unlike UN Weapons Inspectors, who seem to take a subtle approach to weapons-inspection attire, our activists dressed as 'walking missiles', with "NUCLEAR FREE NATO" emblazoned across them.
Six European countries (Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Turkey, Italy and UK) currently have an estimated 480 American air-launched nuclear bombs based on their territories. Isn't this a bit hypocritical? Our nuclear campaigner Nicky Davies thinks so. "At a time when NATO members are urging countries like Iran to abandon their nuclear ambitions, we have the hypocritical situation in which non-nuclear NATO states play host to US weapons," she said.
There seems to be growing political and public unease amongst a number of European countries towards hosting US nuclear weapons, with Belgium among them. These citizen weapons inspections have grown out of this frustration at the continued secrecy of nuclear weapon states. Interestingly, the Bombspotters are actually upholding International Law, which declares the "threat and use" of all nuclear weapons to be illegal.
"We are calling on NATO to disarm and become a nuclear-free alliance as a first step towards the global abolition of nuclear weapons," said Nicky, from among the walking bombs.
More information
So, you want to be a bombspotter? 'Bombspotting XL' is organised annually by peace and environmental organisations demanding a nuclear free NATO. Check out http://www.bombspotting.be
Listen in!
Live Bombspotting radio...
Radio (the old-fashioned kind) - Radio Panik Brussels (105.4), Radio OSR Soignies-Mons (101.6)
Live stream
ogg (winamp and xmms)
mp3 (windows media player, realplayer, etc...)
Latest Update ... 500 Bombspotters arrested!
500 bomspotters were arrested by police after a thousand activists gathered in Belgium to carry out a citizens nuclear weapons inspection.
A massive police presence greeted inspectors from Greenpeace and Bombspotting at NATO- HQ.
But the Bombspotters won't give up that easily: "We are part of a growing network of people who will continue to conduct these inspections," said our campaigner Nicky Davies.
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