Royal Society / Pugwash Collaboration:People of Science – Sir Jo Rotblat (featuring Prof Brian Cox & Lord Martin Rees) We are delighted to announce that the Royal Society video on Pugwash and its founder (Sir Joseph Rotblat) is now available on YouTube (here). The film is part of a series hosted by Prof Brian Cox, in which […]
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New research: Hypersonic weapon systems – Implications and arms control (Dec 2019)
Student/Young Pugwash UK is delighted to release a new report on developments with hypersonic missile technology. The paper covers the latest technologies, the key states involved, the risks posed and the potential ways forward for arms control and non-proliferation. The report was developed by Matteo Frigoli, a young legal scholar with specialist interests in space […]
Major General Sir Hugh Beach – some Pugwash recollections 2002-2019
By Dr Christopher Watson, BPG Exec Committee Hugh Beach, who died on 4 September 2019, was born on 23 May 1923 to Constance and William H Beach (who was latterly a Major-General & engineer-in-chief of the Indian Army). Hugh was educated at Winchester and Peterhouse, Cambridge (getting Firsts in both parts of the Mechanical Science […]
Multimedia available – Ethical Science? – Nottingham University – 23rd October 2019
British Pugwash co-hosted with University of Nottingham Physics Department a mini-conference about ethical issues in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The conference was open to all ages and disciplines. The agenda is below. The conference was reviewed by Nottingham’s Professor Philip Moriarty (here) in a blog post titled ‘Some down-to-earth, blue sky thinking’. Ethical […]
British Pugwash Newsletter – August 2019
Topics covered in the British Pugwash Autumn 2019 Newsletter include: Ethical Science Mini-Conference: Nottingham, All welcome! Tehran meeting on JCPOA: Pugwash delegation to Iran Training day – DIY Media – Create compelling video! Hypersonic missiles and strategic stability: Geneva workshop ‘Drones, swarming and the future of warfare’: Pugwash at APPG Salisbury poisonings one year on: […]
Pugwash news in June: Iran visit, Prof Finney on killer robots, President on NPT
Item 1: Iran visit – International Pugwash visited Tehran (Iran) for a two-day meeting to discuss the JCPOA (the ‘Iran Deal’) – Meeting notes and photos here Item 2: Killer robots – Professor John Finney, of the British Pugwash Trust, has written for Responsible Science about the risks of ‘killer robots’ and the UN’s COMEST Commissions […]