Nuclear Peace: The Story of the Trident Three
by John Mayer
Category: Political Science

The Trident Three are three middle-aged women who, on a quiet June morning in999, disarmed the British Trident Thermonuclear Submarine Fleet. Theirubsequent arrest and trial were watched around the world by politicians andampaigners of all persuasions. In 1996 these women helped achieve theandmark World Court Judgement, which held that under internationalumanitarian law, the use of nuclear weapons is illegal. The Britishovernment ignored the judgement, and this led to the act which landed therident Three back in court and in the international news spotlight. Theeace campaigners who had undertaken this direct action - Angie Zelter fromngland, Ellen Moxley from San Francisco, Ulla Roder from Denmark - called inxpert witnesses from international organisations, including NATO and the UNo support their defence. What emerges is an extraordinary story with theost wide-ranging implications of any act of disarmament since the formationf the anti-nuclear movement. This book is written by the man closest to Therident Three - their lawyer.;Using the highest laws in the world - the