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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9005

5 August 2005
Contents Publication in full By article 10 / 22
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/nuclear

04/08/2005 (Agence Europe) - MEP Caroline Lucas has called on the UK to scrap its Trident nuclear weapons programme as a tribute to the victims of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, causing 70,000 deaths (the number of victims of the first atomic bomb and of its after-effects were 200,000 at the end of the 20th century). The British Green member, who belongs to the European Parliament's Peace Initiatives Group and to the British national council of the Campaign for...