Key topics: Trident renewal, NPT Reaching Consensus project, the Disarmament Institute (BRINDI), and continued work on verification of disarmament; new science and ethics focus on the military robotics debate; developing work on UK energy policy; International Pugwash 60th conference
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The link between non-proliferation and disarmament in the NPT: is there consensus behind the conflict?
Published on 1st May 2013 in Disarmament, NPT, Publications 2010-2014, Publications 2013-2014
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.
British Pugwash Annual Report 2011
Published on 1st May 2011 in Nuclear Weapons, Trident, Climate Change and Energy Policy, Disarmament, NPT, Annual reports
Key topics: UK related nuclear weapons issues, particularly government’s decision to proceed with renewing Trident; non-proliferation and disarmament issues. New themes: future of UK energy policy; climate change and planetary boundaries
Addressing current disarmament and non-proliferation Issues
Published on 29th November 2010 in NPT, Disarmament, Events 2010-2014
British Pugwash co-sponsored, with the International Institute of Strategic Studies, the inaugural UK discussion of the International Network of Emerging Nuclear Specialists (INENS).
What did the NPT Review Conference achieve?
Published on 16th June 2010 in NPT, Events 2010-2014
The discussion meeting after the British Pugwash AGM focused on ‘The 2010 NPT Review Conference: consequences for the future of disarmament and non-proliferation’. Speakers included Ambassador Peter Jenkins, Geneva Centre for Security Policy; previously UK Ambassador to the IAEA; Carol Naughton, Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy; and Prof. John Simpson, Mountbatten Centre for International Studies.
British Pugwash Annual Report 2010
Published on 1st May 2010 in Nuclear Weapons, Trident, Disarmament, NPT, BRINDI, Annual reports, Remote Control Weaponry
Key topics: Advancing UK and European leadership in nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament in the runup to the May 2010 NPT Review Conference; Report: The Management of Separated Plutonium in the UK; mapping disarmament in the UK