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.
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Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience: Launching Andrew Brown’s biography of Joseph Rotblat
Published on 8th February 2012 in Joseph Rotblat: Life & Work, Disarmament, Events 2010-2014, History
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
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.