Atomic Reporters & SYP UK Partnership: Student/Young Pugwash (SYP) UK is pleased to support the work of Atomic Reporters (here), who will be sending a team of citizen journalists to Vienna to cover three back-to-back disarmament conferences this month. From mid-June, the team from Atomic Reporters will be at: The first meeting of member states […]
Archive | 2022
SYP UK appoint new leadership team
Student/Young Pugwash (SYP) UK has appointed a new Executive Board. The Board will provide strategic leadership and coordinate the activities of SYP UK members and affiliated groups across the country. Members of the Executive Board are: Emily Faux Emily is a PhD candidate at Newcastle University, researching the intersection between nuclear weapons and popular culture. […]
British Pugwash Lecture at Hay – Prof. Dominic Lieven (29th May)
This year’s British Pugwash Lecture at the Hay Festival of Literature and Arts will be given by Professor Dominic Lieven. He will be presenting his latest work In the Shadow of the Gods. This is an account of the men (and occasional woman) who led the world’s empires. The book probes the essence of leadership […]
A reminder of why nuclear weapons must never be used (VIDEO)
In the video below, Dr Ira Helfand, co-chairman of the Nuclear Weapons Abolition Committee of Physicians for Social Responsibility, offers a timely reminder of the horrifying power of thermonuclear weapons and of the dire consequences of the political irresponsibility that has left Russia and the United States in possession of 10,000+ nuclear warheads thirty years […]
April/May newsletter – British Pugwash
Topics covered in the British Pugwash April/May 2022 Newsletter include: 1. Post-AGM Lecture on Small Modular Reactors – 26th April 2. UK/Kazakh Pugwash Workshop on Nuclear Risk Reduction – Video 3. Climate Change & Nuclear Infrastructure – Video 4. Pugwash Lecture at Hay Festival – Prof. D. Lieven – 29th May 5. A selection of […]
March/April newsletter – British Pugwash
Topics covered in the British Pugwash July/August 2022 Newsletter include: 1. Annual General Meeting – 26th April 2. Post-AGM Lecture on Small Modular Reactors – 26th April 3. Pugwash Note on nuclear risks and Ukraine 4. Climate Change & Nuclear Infrastructure – 6th April 5. Pugwash Lecture at Hay Festival – Prof. D. Lieven – 29th May […]