Items include: 1. Webinar on nuclear weapons and the Ukraine- 14th December 2. Video of September’s webinar 3. Memorial service for Dr Christopher Watson 4. Rodney Fielding, former member of British Pugwash 5. Recent articles and reports of interest 6. Student and Young Pugwash update … 1. December webinar: Nuclear weapons, the Ukraine conflict and beyond Join us […]
Archive | November, 2022
Event: The Pugwash Nobel Peace Prize 27 Years On: Reflections and Outlook
Published on 18th November 2022 in Student Young Pugwash Events
On December 10th 1995, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs and Sir Joseph Rotblat, the youngest original signee of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo “for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms.” The first Nobel Peace Prize jointly […]
A British Pugwash Note on the Absence of Sole Purpose in NATO’s 2022 Strategic Concept
Published on 3rd November 2022 in Uncategorised, Nuclear Weapons, Disarmament, NPT, International Peace & Security, Recently published
In June 2022 NATO members adopted an updated Strategic Concept (the preceding Concept having been adopted in 2010). There was reason to hope that in the updated Concept NATO members would envisage using nuclear weapons only in response to their first use by a nuclear-armed adversary. That reason lay in remarks made by President Biden […]