British Pugwash, in conjunction with Oxford University Press, launched Andrew Brown’s biography of Joseph Rotblat, Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience at a packed meeting at UCL.
Events 2010-2014 RSS feed for this section
Stable at Zero: Maintaining a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
Published on 29th September 2011 in Nuclear Weapons, Disarmament, Events 2010-2014
Ward Wilson, Senior Fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies returned to address a British Pugwash Discussion Meeting at University College London.
Rotblat – a nuclear physicist in the public eye 1944-1957
Published on 18th July 2011 in Projects 2009-2012 – feed, Disarmament, Events 2010-2014, History
At the Annual Conference of the British Society for the History of Science, Exeter, British Pugwash organised a session on ‘Rotblat – a nuclear physicist in the public eye 1944-1957’.
Planetary Boundaries: Challenging Environmental Orthodoxies
Published on 6th July 2011 in Climate Change and Energy Policy, Events 2010-2014
Addressing a well-attended British Pugwash Group meeting on 6 July at University College London, Professor Johan Rockström of Stockholm University outlined the concept of planetary boundaries developed by an international group of earth scientists and systems analysts.
Royal Society of Edinburgh, Trident – should we keep it?
Published on 23rd June 2011 in Trident, Events 2010-2014
Together with the WMD Awareness Programme, British Pugwash co-sponsored this ‘mock trial’ of Trident in Edinburgh on 23 June. Professor Michael Clarke, Director of the Royal United Services Institute, made the ‘no’ case, with the ‘yes’ arguments being put by former UK Defence Secretary and Secretary General of NATO Lord Robertson of Port Ellen.
Joseph Rotblat Memorial Lecture 2011
Published on 16th May 2011 in Nuclear Weapons, Disarmament, Events 2010-2014
The annual Rotblat lecture at the Hay Festival featured Dr Mohamed ElBaradei, former Director General of the IAEA, live from Cairo in discussion with Jon Snow. Dr ElBaradei’s book, The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times, the ‘Arab Spring’, and his candidacy in the 2011 Egyptian elections were among the subjects covered.