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.
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British Pugwash Quinquennial Report 2007-2013
The Quinquennial Report 2007-2013 was produced to coincide with the International Pugwash Quinquennial meeting held in Istanbul 1-5 November 2013.
General Sir Hugh Beach: How would Britain fare as a non-nuclear weapon state?
A paper given by Hugh Beach at the 60th International Pugwash Conference, Istanbul 1-5 November 2013.
British Pugwash Newsletter September 2013
Topics include: Trident renewal; non-proliferation and disarmament; the military robotics debate; Launch of expert report Pathways to 2050: Three possible UK energy strategies.
British Pugwash Annual Report 2012
Key topics: Verification of nuclear weapon dismantlement and energy strategies. Key discussion meetings included: the launch of Andrew Brown’s biography of Joseph Rotblat; ‘The Lessons of Fukushima’, and ‘Generating clean energy from sunlight and maintaining biodiversity’
The link between non-proliferation and disarmament in the NPT: is there consensus behind the conflict?
Final report of a British Pugwash Group project that aimed identify possible grounds for a new consensus on the link between non-proliferation and disarmament in the context of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, with consideration for the potential role of the UK.