The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) was founded in 1957 as a peace organisation that advocates avoiding nuclear war by the unilateral nuclear disarmament of the United Kingdom,eventual international nuclear disarmament and tighter international arms regulation through agreements such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. It is also opposed to any military action that may result in the use of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons and the building of nuclear power stations in the UK. Committee of 100 was a short lived riotus splinter group that it disowned after it went off on to topics including Biafra, the Vietnam war and housing in the UK. Support for CND dwindled after the 1963 Test Ban Treaty, but rose in the 1980s as the Cold War began to revive.