Archive | October, 2025
New publication: ‘Fresh Thinking on Peace and Nuclear Disarmament: Articles from the SYP Conference 2025’
Each year, Student / Young Pugwash (SYP-UK) organises a conference on international security. The subject of the 8th annual conference, held in 2025 at King’s College London, was ‘Stepping Back from the Brink: Fresh Thinking on Peace and Disarmament’. Our aim was to encourage new thinking on the legal, political and technical questions associated with […]
Tong Zhao: ‘Nuclear Risk Reduction in an Era of Great Power Rivalry’
We asked one of the speakers at the Pugwash / Royal Society event marking the 70th anniversary of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, Tong Zhao, to elaborate on his remarks in writing. The article below was originally published on the Ambassador Partnership’s website. … Efforts to reduce nuclear dangers face stiff headwinds as most nuclear armed states […]
Video: Tariq Rauf on the future of the NPT
Watch below Tariq Rauf speaking on: “Eliminating Nuclear Weapons: Prospects for the 2026 NPT Review Conference” at our webinar on 24 October. Tariq discussed the review process for the NPT, the meaning of “consensus”, whether an outcome document is required at Review Conferences, as well as friction points between nuclear weapon states and non-nuclear weapon […]