Peter Jenkins, former UK Ambassador to the IAEA (and Chair of British Pugwash), will be speaking and taking questions about the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Open to all. Facebook event here.…
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Maritime tensions in the South China Sea – Great Warwick SYP event
On 2nd February, Warwick SYP hosted BASIC’s Sebastian Brixey-Williams, who spoke about tensions in the South China Sea.
The event, titled ‘Maritime tensions in the South China Sea – A future field for nuclear tensions’, was well attended by 40+ students and was followed by a lively discussion.…
President of Pugwash at SOAS – Nuclear issues in South Asia
NB. Audio from the event can be found here.
On 8th December Jayantha Dhanapala, the President of Pugwash and former Under-Secretary-General of the UN, spoke to students at SOAS about nuclear issues in South Asia.…
Physics students get political – University of Nottingham seminar
On 28th November, two members of the British Pugwash Executive Committee addressed an undergraduate Physics class at University of Nottingham.
It was a lively two hours, in which students, their Professor and Pugwashites debated the ethics of autonomous robots weapons (‘Killer Robots’), the intergenerational fairness of nuclear waste storage policies and learnt about early attempts by physicists, like Jo Rotblat, to educate the public about the dangers of nuclear weapons testing.…