Meg Beresford (born 5 September 1937) was a British campaigner against

nuclear weapon A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions ( thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion. Both bom ...

s and general secretary of the

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) is an organisation that advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament by the United Kingdom, international nuclear disarmament and tighter international arms regulation through agreements such as the Nuc ...

from 1985 to 1990. An activist involved with the

European Nuclear Disarmament European Nuclear Disarmament (END) was a Europe-wide movement for a "nuclear-free Europe from Poland to Portugal” that put on annual European Nuclear Disarmament conventions from 1982 to 1991. Origins The founding statement of END was the Eur ...

(END) movement, she came to prominence as END's organising secretary. In 1985 Beresford was appointed General Secretary for

, Europe's largest single-issue peace campaign. Her term concluded in 1990, and she subsequently worked as a gardener for the

Iona Community The Iona Community, founded in 1938 by George MacLeod, is an ecumenical Christian community of men and women from different walks of life and different traditions within Christianity. It and its publishing house, Wild Goose Publications, are hea ...

on the island of Iona.

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* "CND and the Soviet Union", ''Sanity'', January 1985

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''Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny About This"''
P. J. O'Rourke, Grove Press, 2000, 1937 births Living people British anti-war activists Iona Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament activists British anti–nuclear weapons activists {{UK-activist-stub

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