Archive | 2012

Rose Gottemoeller: progress towards ‘nuclear zero’

Rose Gottemoeller: progress towards ‘nuclear zero’. This year’s Joseph Rotblat Memorial Lecture at the Hay Festival on 10 June was given by Rose Gottemoeller, Acting Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security in the Obama Administration, and US Chief Negotiator for the new START treaty. This annual lecture is organized by WMD Awareness and […]

Lessons of Fukushima

Just before the first anniversary of the Fukushima earthquake and tsunami, Dr Mike Weightman outlined the results of his international fact-finding mission to Japan in May 2011 on behalf of the IAEA and its implications for the British nuclear industry.