This annual lecture at the Guardian Hay Festival was given this year by Basharat Peer, author of Curfewed Night, a memoir about the struggle for justice in Kashmir.
Archive | May, 2010
Armed robots and military nanotechnology
Published on 26th May 2010 in Events 2010-2014, Remote Control Weaponry
At a British Pugwash discussion meeting at which Prof. Jürgen Altmann of the Faculty of Physics, Technische Universität Dortmund reviewed the military uses of robots, particularly uninhabited vehicles (UAVs) and their potential future role in and influence on warfare, and the possibilities of their preventive limitation.
British Pugwash Annual Report 2010
Published on 1st May 2010 in Nuclear Weapons, Trident, Disarmament, NPT, Annual reports, BRINDI, Remote Control Weaponry
Key topics: Advancing UK and European leadership in nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament in the runup to the May 2010 NPT Review Conference; Report: The Management of Separated Plutonium in the UK; mapping disarmament in the UK