The Anti-Nuclear Campaign was an umbrella group to which dozens of local campaign groups affiliated from across the UK. The ANC campaigned on a broad anti-nuclear platform: like CND, it opposed nuclear weapons like CND, but it also opposed nuclear power.
Founded on 24 November 1979, the group was chaired by Arthur Scargill, then chair of the National Union of Mineworkers.
The 1979 Special Branch Annual Report mentions the ANC being founded and it is listed as a surveillance target in SDS annual reports between 1980 and 1984.
Despite this there is little reporting on the organisation, apart from that of HN155 ‘Phil Cooper’, who infiltrated the Waltham Forest branch between 1980 and 1981. Cooper filed a lengthy report on the the group’s national conference in 1980 that listed the names of hundreds of affiliated groups.