CND Christmas Vigil

CND Christmas Vigil

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Details

Location

Belfast City Hall

Year

1964

Date

Production 24/12/1964

Length

20sec

Audio

mute

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland under the Archiving Scheme 2

Courtesy

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

Outside Belfast City Hall, CND have organised a 24-hour vigil. 

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) was founded in 1957 in the wake of widespread fear of nuclear conflict and the effects of nuclear tests. In the early 1950s Britain had become the third atomic power, after the US and the USSR, and had recently tested an H-bomb. 

The fear of nuclear war was very real during the Cold War era from after WWII until the 1990s as tensions rose between the USSR and the USA and their allies. 

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.

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