The St Albans Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament will take to the streets of the city centre this weekend, in a bid to raise awareness of the cost of Britain's nuclear weapons.
The group will make their presence known on St Peter's Street between 11am and 1pm, on Saturday (April 22).
A banner will be held, featuring the £205 billion sum that the group believe will be needed to replace the UK's 'Trident' nuclear weapons system.
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The chair of the St Albans Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament told The Herts Advertiser "We are making a point, certainly".
The campaign group's website adds: "In 1945, two nuclear weapons destroyed - in seconds - the Japanese towns of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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"Since then, the capacity for nuclear destruction has increased dramatically.
"Between them, Britain, the US, France, Russia and China now possess 36,000 nuclear weapons – enough to destroy the world many times over.
"Other states, such as Israel, India and Pakistan, now possess nuclear weapons...
"...CND exists to oppose these threats to peace."
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