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In November 1983 a group of women from Britain walked with their lawyers into the US Federal Court in New York. They carried with them hundreds of pages of expert affidavits and legal submissions to support their claim for an injunction to stop the deployment of Cruise missiles in Britain.1 Meanwhile in Britain a Peace Camp flowered for a brief twenty-four hours outside every one of the 102 US Military Bases which had by then been identified.
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Hickman, J. (1986). Greenham Women Against Cruise Missiles and others v. Ronald Reagan and others. In: Dewar, J., Paliwala, A., Picciotto, S., Ruete, M. (eds) Nuclear Weapons, the Peace Movement and the Law. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18200-8_12
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