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British Pugwash Newsletter November 2015

Published on 16th December 2015 in Climate Change and Energy Policy, Trident, Disarmament, NPT, Ethics of Science, Chemical and Biological Weapons, History, International Peace & Security, Remote Control Weaponry, Newsletters, Recently published

Topics include: WMDA Talking Trident and Ambassadors’ programmes; the ethics of developing technologies; Syria’s chemical weapons; Ukraine; relaunching Student/Young Pugwash; global energy calculator

British Pugwash Annual Report 2014

Published on 23rd June 2015 in Climate Change and Energy Policy, Trident, Ethics of Science, Annual reports, BRINDI, Remote Control Weaponry, Recently published

Key topics: developments on the international disarmament scene with major implications for British Pugwash; Trident and the General Election; the Disarmament Institute (BRINDI); science and ethics, including the military robotics debate; UK and European energy policy. Read or download the report (pdf)

British Pugwash Newsletter September 2014

Published on 1st September 2014 in Nuclear Weapons, Trident, NPT, BRINDI, Publications 2010-2014, Publications 2013-2014, Remote Control Weaponry, Newsletters

Topics include: The launch of BRINDI; Trident issues; WMDA Talking Trident; The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; The ethics of developing technologies; Meeting: Security by remote control – can it work?

British Pugwash Annual Report 2013

Published on 1st June 2014 in Trident, Climate Change and Energy Policy, NPT, Annual reports, BRINDI, Ethics of Science

Key topics: Trident renewal, NPT Reaching Consensus project, the Disarmament Institute (BRINDI), and continued work on verification of disarmament; new science and ethics focus on the military robotics debate; developing work on UK energy policy; International Pugwash 60th conference

General Sir Hugh Beach: It is time to move on from 1980s rhetoric

Published on 1st May 2014 in Disarmament, Publications 2010-2014, Publications 2013-2014

In a response to Malcolm Chalmers’ article in the December 2013 edition of the RUSI Journal, Hugh Beach argues that it is time to move on from 1980s rhetoric of ‘unilateral’ versus ‘multilateral’ disarmament and to act in the UK’s true national interest.