A NUCLEAR missile passed through the streets of York today.
But it placed no threat to residents as it was a 15-foot replica of a Trident nuclear missile which forms part of a mobile exhibition from local activists for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
The replica missile is part of their Traffickin' Trident mobile exhibition which aims to tell people about a new nuclear threat. It was on display in Parliament Street between 11am and 4pm. A spokesperson for Yorkshire CND said the exhibition was designed to inform about nuclear meltdown in Russia, how nuclear missiles are becoming available on the black market and Britain's involvement with nuclear weapons. Dave Knight, the national chairman of CND, said: "Many people still think nuclear weapons were done away with at the end of the Cold War. Sadly this just isn't true. The fact is that as the new millennium beckons, we still have 36,000 nuclear weapons in the world and many of them are on high alert ready to fire.
"Do we need another Hiroshima to learn the lesson that nuclear weapons must be abolished?
"The tour is to give people the facts and figures about the nukes and to let them know exactly how they can get actively involved in helping to ban the bomb."
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