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. He covered the relationships between nuclear-armed states like India, China and Pakistan but also how non-nuclear states perceive and interact […]
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Physics students get political – University of Nottingham seminar
Published on 8th December 2016 in Climate Change and Energy Policy, Ethics of Science, Recent events, Remote Control Weaponry, Student Young Pugwash Events
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, […]
Rotblat Lecture 2016: William Perry ‘My Journey to the nuclear brink’
Published on 1st December 2016 in Nuclear Weapons, Disarmament, Recent events, International Peace & Security
The 12th Joseph Rotblat Lecture at the Hay Festival, held on 2 June 2016 in cooperation with WMD Awareness, featured William Perry, Bill Clinton’s Defence Secretary on ‘My Journey at the Nuclear Brink’, in conversation with Nik Gowing.
Global energy strategies with low temperature rises
Published on 24th November 2016 in Climate Change and Energy Policy, Recent events
In a lecture at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory on 24 November 2016, Dr Christopher Watson and Jef Ongena explored energy strategies that give a mean surface temperature rise of less than 2 degrees by 2100, as required by the Paris Agreement, using the DECC Global Calculator.
Impact of Emerging Technologies on the Future of SSBNs, September 2016 Conference: Reports
Published on 17th November 2016 in Emerging Technologies and the Impact on Strategic Stability, Trident, Current projects – feed, Recent events, Recently published
Two new reports assess the effect of emerging undersea technologies on ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) and strategic stability. They arise from work led by British Pugwash with BASIC in a close, supporting role.
Annual British Student / Young Pugwash Conference (25th March 2017)
Published on 7th November 2016 in Recent events
Student/ Young Pugwash has put together a multidisciplinary conference about nuclear weapons and arms control / disarmament, looking at recent changes in science/technology, international law, IR and theory/discourse. The conference is titled ‘Uncharted Territory: Arms control and disarmament in the New Nuclear Age‘ and will be held at SOAS on 25th March 2017. All welcome. For info and […]