The growth of the human population of the earth and the consequent demand for energy has led to an increase in CO2 in the atmosphere and a loss of biodiversity that is likely to lead to a “sixth extinction”, argues Dr Peter Weightman.
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Rose Gottemoeller: progress towards ‘nuclear zero’
Rose Gottemoeller: progress towards ‘nuclear zero’. This year’s Joseph Rotblat Memorial Lecture at the Hay Festival on 10 June was given by Rose Gottemoeller, Acting Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security in the Obama Administration, and US Chief Negotiator for the new START treaty. This annual lecture is organized by WMD Awareness and […]
Lessons of Fukushima
Just before the first anniversary of the Fukushima earthquake and tsunami, Dr Mike Weightman outlined the results of his international fact-finding mission to Japan in May 2011 on behalf of the IAEA and its implications for the British nuclear industry.
Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience: Launching Andrew Brown’s biography of Joseph Rotblat
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.
Stable at Zero: Maintaining a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
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
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’.