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Register here to join the webinar via zoom. Speakers: Paul Ingram (CSER) and David Cullen (BASIC) Description: Our speakers will provide an update on the UK’s nuclear weapons system, and the replacement programme, with a focus on US technological dependence. They will review Euro-Atlantic relations and how recent political developments could affect the UK’s nuclear future. […]
You are invited to the 9th Annual Student / Young Pugwash Conference! The venue is London Metropolitan University (Holloway campus, Room TM3-03). Registration will take place from 9.30am and the first session will start at 10am. The event will end at 5pm followed by a social at a nearby venue. The conference theme is ‘How can we control and eliminate […]
From 1-5 November, Hiroshima hosted the 63rd Pugwash Conference. The meeting commemorated the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Japan, as well as the 70th anniversary of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, and the 30th anniversary of the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to Sir Joseph Rotblat and Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. From the bombed areas, where the […]
On 5 December Dr Marion Messmer discussed Europe’s options after: the collapse of the INF Treaty; an increase in investment in missile technologies across the European continent; and declining confidence in the US nuclear umbrella, at a time of regional and global instability. Biography Dr Marion Messmer is a senior research fellow in the International Security Programme at Chatham House. She has […]
Each year, Student / Young Pugwash (SYP-UK) organises a conference on international security. The subject of the 8th annual conference, held in 2025 at King’s College London, was ‘Stepping Back from the Brink: Fresh Thinking on Peace and Disarmament’. Our aim was to encourage new thinking on the legal, political and technical questions associated with […]
We asked one of the speakers at the Pugwash / Royal Society event marking the 70th anniversary of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, Tong Zhao, to elaborate on his remarks in writing. The article below was originally published on the Ambassador Partnership’s website. … Efforts to reduce nuclear dangers face stiff headwinds as most nuclear armed states […]
