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.
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Joseph Rotblat Memorial Lecture 2011
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.
The future of Trident
General Sir Hugh Beach, former Master-General of the Ordnance and Dr Nick Ritchie, Bradford Disarmament Research Centre addressed a British Pugwash discussion meeting at University College London.
Addressing current disarmament and non-proliferation Issues
British Pugwash co-sponsored, with the International Institute of Strategic Studies, the inaugural UK discussion of the International Network of Emerging Nuclear Specialists (INENS).
Rethinking Nuclear Weapons
Ward Wilson, Senior Fellow at the James Martin Center for Non-proliferation Studies, Monterey Institute, addressed a British Pugwash discussion meeting at University College London on the pragmatic question of whether nuclear weapons are effective and of economic or political value, setting aside the many moral arguments that can be made.
A Middle East weapons of mass destruction free zone
The fifth London Conference on this important and difficult issue was again organised by the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS, and co-sponsored by British Pugwash.