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British Pugwash update: June 2024

Fact checking the Sunday Telegraph’s interview with Jens Stoltenberg A recent ‘exclusive’ article in the Sunday Telegraph featured an interview with Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of NATO. It is concerning that the summary of Stoltenberg’s answers provided in the article is misleading in places. For example, the journalist who conducted the interview wrote that: “NATO […]

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Review of the 7th Annual SYP Conference: AI, Peace and Security

Contents:   1. Summary review of the 7th Annual SYP Conference: ‘AI: Implications for peace and security’   2. Conference materials: video / pictures / slides / presenter contact details   1. Conference Review   “Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents enormous global opportunities: it has the potential to transform and enhance human wellbeing, peace and prosperity”. […]

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Provisional agenda: 7th Annual SYP Conference: ‘AI, Peace and Security’, 27/01/24, King’s College London

You are invited to the 7th Annual Student / Young Pugwash Conference on 27 January 2024   The venue is King’s College London, Strand Campus, Dockrill Room (K6.07). Registration will take place from 9.30am and the first session will start at 10am. The subject of the conference is ‘Artificial Intelligence: implications for peace and security’. We want to […]

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Invitation: Student / Young Pugwash, Artificial Intelligence Peace and Security Conference, 270124

You are invited to the 7th Annual Student / Young Pugwash Conference on 27 January 2024   The venue is King’s College London, Strand Campus, Dockrill Room (K6.07). Registration will take place from 9.30am and the first session will start at 10am. The subject of the conference is ‘Artificial Intelligence: implications for peace and security’. We want […]

New Briefing: Aspects of UK Nuclear Weapons Possession

Aspects of UK Nuclear Weapons Possession    Download a pdf of this briefing here.   This briefing covers four areas: i) UK nuclear weapons modernisation ii) the UK-US nuclear relationship iii) UK nuclear use policy in the context of the Russia-Ukraine war iv) UK action on nuclear arms control and disarmament.   1. Modernising the […]

Pugwash Meeting on Irreversibility in the Nuclear Domain

British and International Pugwash convened a discussion on the theme of irreversibility in the nuclear domain in Rome on 20 and 21 November 2023. The 12 participants, present in a personal capacity, came from the USA, Russia, China, India, the UK, Canada, Italy, Belgium, and Germany. The group comprised former diplomats, political scientists, physicists, and […]