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.
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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.
What did the NPT Review Conference achieve?
The discussion meeting after the British Pugwash AGM focused on ‘The 2010 NPT Review Conference: consequences for the future of disarmament and non-proliferation’. Speakers included Ambassador Peter Jenkins, Geneva Centre for Security Policy; previously UK Ambassador to the IAEA; Carol Naughton, Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy; and Prof. John Simpson, Mountbatten Centre for International Studies.
Joseph Rotblat Memorial Lecture 2010
This annual lecture at the Guardian Hay Festival was given this year by Basharat Peer, author of Curfewed Night, a memoir about the struggle for justice in Kashmir.
Armed robots and military nanotechnology
At a British Pugwash discussion meeting at which Prof. Jürgen Altmann of the Faculty of Physics, Technische Universität Dortmund reviewed the military uses of robots, particularly uninhabited vehicles (UAVs) and their potential future role in and influence on warfare, and the possibilities of their preventive limitation.
Connecting Inconvenient Truths: The Urgency of Nuclear Disarmament in a World of Pressing Problems
1 December 2009. Welcome: Lord Rees of Ludlow, President of the Royal Society; Speaker: Ambassador Jayantha Dhanapala former UN Under-Secretary General; Chair: Baroness Williams of Crosby, special advisor to the Prime Minister