Author Archive | Andrew Gibson

Young citizen journalists reporting from international disarmament conferences

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]