Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, gave a lecture on 5 November at the School of Oriental and African Studies entitled ‘Peering into the Future: The Bumpy Road Ahead’. The meeting was co-hosted by CISD, and British Pugwash.
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Sir Joseph Rotblat honoured by Polish Heritage Society plaque
Members of British Pugwash were delighted to participate in a ceremony on 6th November 2017, in which a plaque honouring Sir Joseph Rotblat was unveiled on the corner of Bury Place and Great Russell Street, London (WCIB 3BJ). The event was organised by Polish Heritage Society UK, to commemorate Sir Joseph’s life and his important […]
62nd International Pugwash conference
The 62nd International Pugwash conference, Confronting New Nuclear Dangers, was held in Astana, Kazakhstan from 25-29 August 2017.
North Korea: the search for a peaceful solution
Sverre Lodgaard, a former director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, delivered the 13th annual Joseph Rotblat Memorial Lecture at the Hay Festival on 3 June 2017.
What underlies North Korea’s drive to acquire nuclear weapons?
At a British Pugwash discussion meeting on 25 April 2017 John Everard, a former British ambassador to North Korea, discussed the DPRK’s nuclear programme against the background of recent events, considering the North Koreans’ objectives and what is known of their nuclear doctrine.
Global Climate Finance: Securing a low carbon future (SOAS, 27th April 2017)
At this Student / Young Pugwash (SYP) seminar, Federico Mazza from Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) and Aneil Tripathy from Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) discussed the current state of global climate finance and considered solutions to secure the resources needed to secure a low carbon transition. Some points made: The IEA has calculated that investments equal to […]