Twenty years ago the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament could muster over 100,000 supporters to its Easter gathering; three years later the movement was in a shambles.
Eric Robson asks Canon John Collins , leader of CND from 1958-64, what went wrong?
As there are far more nuclear weapons in the world now, does he think they failed? With hindsight, did he put too much trust in politicians? Would it have been better to have thrown the movement behind Bertrand Russell and the militants? And how does he rate the current revival of CND?
Research ADAIRE OSBALDESTON Director PAUL LOOSLEY Producer ALAN DOBSON BBC Manchester