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Note on Nuclear Weapon Announcements in the UK’s Integrated Review of Security (May 2021)

Published on 17th May 2021 in Nuclear Weapons, Recently published

The below is a summary of and link to a commentary by Ambassador Peter Jenkins, Chair of British Pugwash. 

Summary

The United Kingdom government recently announced, in the context of an integrated policy review, that it will move to an overall nuclear weapon stockpile of no more than 260 (from a previous target of no more than 180) and that it will extend its longstanding policy of deliberate ambiguity by no longer making public figures for its operational stockpile, deployed warheads and deployed missiles.…

British Pugwash statement on the Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy (March 2021)

Published on 18th March 2021 in Trident, Current projects – feed, Recently published

British Pugwash is troubled to note the UK Government’s decisions, announced in the Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy, to increase the UK’s stockpile of nuclear warheads and no longer to reveal the number of these weapons that will be kept operational.…