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
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Addressing current disarmament and non-proliferation Issues
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?
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
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
British Pugwash Annual Report 2009
Top issues: UK related nuclear weapons issues, particularly government’s decision to proceed with renewing Trident; non-proliferation and disarmament issues.
Nuclear Energy And Nuclear Weapon Proliferation – A New Perspective
7 April 2006, University College London. Speaker: Professor Keith Barnham, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Imperial College London.