Long March of the Protesters Who Tried to Save the World

Critics often dismiss Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament supporters as a bunch of tub-thumping zealots. They remember the news footage of women chained to fences at Greenham Common during the mid 1980s, when the nuclear disarmament campaign was at its peak, arguing that such behaviour merely undermined national security.

But half a century ago when the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament was launched in front of 5,000 people at Westminster's Central Hall, in February 1958, its leaders included respected writers and intellectuals such as Bertrand Russell, JB Priestley and AJP Taylor.