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The Easter marches to Aldermaston – 65 years ago
In the early days of the CND, thousands took part in the London to Aldermaston 52-mile, four-day march against the bomb. KATE HUDSON tells the story

SIXTY-FIVE years ago today, thousands of marchers arrived at the Atomic Weapons Establishment in Aldermaston, Berkshire, protesting against the British nuclear bomb being built there. 

These marchers were in at the start of a mass movement, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, which was to transform the very nature of protest and shape social movements for decades to come. 

The world into which CND emerged was changing rapidly. The colonial empires were being dismantled as national liberation movements achieved the independence of their countries. European colonial power in Asia was ending. 

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