Topics include: WMDA Talking Trident and Ambassadors’ programmes; the ethics of developing technologies; Syria’s chemical weapons; Ukraine; relaunching Student/Young Pugwash; global energy calculator
Archive | 2015
Warwick Pugwash Student Society (WPPS)
Warwick Pugwash Student Society (WPPS) invites you to a talk by Dan Barron from WMD Awareness on ‘Britain’s nuclear power and international context’, Tuesday 17 November, 13.00-14.00.
The use of chemical weapons in Syria: misleading narratives and ongoing consequences
At a British Pugwash discussion meeting on 1 July 2015, Richard Guthrie and Dr Caitriona MacLeish explored the highly contradictory themes of narratives developed about the Syrian chemical weapons programme and the international responses to it. These events had many ongoing consequences, not least the continuing use of chlorine in barrel bombs which could weaken […]
International Student/Young Pugwash workshop, Pugwash, Nova Scotia 12-13 July 2015
Alexandra Tsamados, British Pugwash Student & Youth Coordinator reports on an International Student/Young Pugwash Workshop: “Strengthening the young disarmament network”, held at the Thinkers Lodge, Pugwash, Nova Scotia on the 12-13 July 2015. The meeting brought together nine students from Canada, the USA, the UK and Israel, to discuss ways to enhance the network of […]
70th Anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombings
Andreas Tsamados, from the King’s College Student/Young Pugwash group wrote this reflection on the anniversary of the bombings No More Hibakusha