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.…
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British Pugwash Newsletter October 2018
Topics covered in the British Pugwash Late 2018 Newsletter include:
- The state of the Iran nuclear deal
- Nuclear power – future prospects
- Researchers oppose EU military research programme
- Killer robots (guest piece by Article 36)
- Upcoming events
Lord Martin Rees: Peering into the Future – The Bumpy Road Ahead
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Global Climate Finance: Securing a low carbon future (SOAS, 27th April 2017)
At this Student / Young Pugwash (SYP) seminar, Federico Mazza from Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) and Aneil Tripathy from Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) discussed the current state of global climate finance and considered solutions to secure the resources needed to secure a low carbon transition.…
Physics students get political – University of Nottingham seminar
On 28th November, two members of the British Pugwash Executive Committee addressed an undergraduate Physics class at University of Nottingham.
It was a lively two hours, in which students, their Professor and Pugwashites debated the ethics of autonomous robots weapons (‘Killer Robots’), the intergenerational fairness of nuclear waste storage policies and learnt about early attempts by physicists, like Jo Rotblat, to educate the public about the dangers of nuclear weapons testing.…