It is a central purpose of Pugwash to communicate with governments about ethical issues that arise from professional scientific activity. In a talk on 28 November 2007 at UCL, Tony Benn reflected on this from a lifetime of political experience.
Archive | 2007
Sir David Attenborough at the Hay Festival
Sir David Attenborough gave the annual Joseph Rotblat Memorial Lecture on 2 June 2007 at the Hay Festival, organised by the WMD Awareness Programme.
Developments in NATO and the EU
At a public discussion meeting on10 May 2007, Lord Roper, former Liberal Democrat Chief Whip in the House of Lords and Professorial Fellow at the Institute for German Studies of the University of Birmingham discussed the deployment of military force by NATO and the EU since the end of the Cold War.
Bending the Rules – Morality in the Modern World – From Relationships to Politics and War
Robert Hinde, Bending the Rules: Morality in the Modern World – From Relationships to Politics and War, Oxford University Press, 2007. In this book, Robert Hinde explores a deeper understanding of morality based on the behavioural sciences.
Visionary for Peace – book
Reiner Braun, Robert Hinde, David Krieger, Harold Kroto and Sally Milne (eds) Joseph Rotblat: Visionary for Peace, Wiley VCH, 2007. Biographical articles on Jo Rotblat’s work for science and peace, and commentaries by Pugwashites and other scientists, Nobel laureates, friends and colleagues.
Letters – Nuclear Weapons
Letter: Robert Hinde ‘Nuclear Weapons’, The Independent, 12 March 2007