Concept

Alternative Defence Commission

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  • 1214
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  • 1214
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  • Independent group set up in October 1980 to explore the range of defence options open to Britain if it abandoned nuclear weapons and refused to have such weapons based on its territory. The group included politicians, academics, trade unionists, churchmen and journalists. The Commission was wound up in 1987.