Analysing and Resisting US Nuclear Expansion
Lakenheath – Thursday 24th April 2025
| 9.30am | Registration and welcome |
| 10am-11.30am | Global Dynamics: challenging US militarism and the drive to war |
| 11.45am-1.15pm | NATO and the nuclear build-up in Europe: how the bases are used |
| 1.15pm-2.15pm | LUNCH |
| 2.15pm-3.45pm | How bases impact on communities: environment, pollution and people |
| 4pm-5.30pm | Looking ahead: solidarity, strategy and action |
Call for Action – Join our Conference
US determination to maintain its global domination – by military, as well as political and economic means – has brought death and destruction, environmental degradation, and impoverishment to countless millions across the planet.
In recent years US contempt for international law, and its trashing of international arms control treaties, have made the world a far more dangerous place. Its systematic expansion of nuclear-armed NATO – now gone global – and its pursuance of bilateral military alliances, has brought tension and conflict, risking wider wars and even global nuclear conflagration. The second Trump presidency is likely to make matters worse.
Central to US militarisation and its increasing nuclearisation, is its extensive network of foreign military bases – in the region of 800. A number of US bases across Europe – under the auspices of NATO – enable US nuclear weapons to be present in Europe. They put Europe on the front line in US wars, and risk nuclear war being fought in Europe. These bases are currently in the process of being equipped with upgraded and more versatile nuclear weapons, as well as being used to support ongoing US wars. One of these bases is USAF/RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk.
This conference aims to analyse these political and military developments – globally, regionally and locally, drawing together movements and activists from across the world, to support each other, strategise together, and plan action for resistance and change. Please join us.