West of Scotland would be obvious target for nuclear attack, says campaigner ahead of commemoration

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A commemoration event happening this weekend will not only honour the dead, but also seek to warn of the ever present danger of nuclear weapons.Renfrewshire Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) will be hosting their annual memorial service for the victims of the nuclear warheads dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.They’re inviting the public to attend the event at Barshaw Park’s Peace Gardens on Saturday at 5pm where Provost Lorraine Cameron will address the gathering. Don't miss the latest headlines from around Renfrewshire.

Sign up to our newsletters here. A spokesman for Renfrewshire CND said: “The dangers of a nuclear apocalypse are greater today than ever.“Only last week nuclear warheads were transported over the Erskine Bridge and down the M8 on their way to the South of England, endangering communities all along the way.“It is only a matter of time before there is a serious accident with release of radio active material.”There is a large nuclear presence on the west coast of Scotland, owing to the location of Her Majesty's Naval Base, Clyde at Faslane on the Gare Loch, which is the home of nuclear submarines armed with Trident missiles.Duncan Macintosh, secretary of the Renfrewshire CND, fears that if there were any outbreak of nuclear war, the west coast of Scotland would be an obvious target.

He said: "There are dangers just in these convoys going up and down our roads, but if you consider that recently Putin and the Russians specifically mentioned Britain in terms of a nuclear war. "It would be suicidal