The way we were.

Some where in the rear of this "Ban the Bomb" protest march may have been my sister Anne.
There were several marches on the American base at Aldermarston in England in the late nineteen-fifties and sixties and she was a convert to the cause.

Some of the devotees actually chained themselves to the perimeter fence and were dragged away, pieces of fence and all, to be put in the police vans.

If results were anything to go by "Ban the Bombers" failed to stop a single bomb being banned.

For the next 50 years nuclear stockpiles have increased and the atomic club has grown from the original members of USA, Russia, China, UK and France to include India, Israel, Pakistan and, who knows? Iran.

Enough concentrated TNT to blow up the earth a thousand times over.

 I used to smile when I heard of my sister's ardent forays, but maybe, just maybe, this:





is preferable to this:



Ian