This project, started in 2009 with funds from the legacy of the late Professor John Ziman FRS, aims to develop the concept of a proposed UK Disarmament Institute.
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British Pugwash Newsletter September 2014
Topics include: The launch of BRINDI; Trident issues; WMDA Talking Trident; The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; The ethics of developing technologies; Meeting: Security by remote control – can it work?
British Pugwash Annual Report 2013
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
Jonathon Porritt The World We Made
The 10th Rotblat annual lecture at the Hay Festival was delivered on 30 May 2014 by Jonathon Porritt, at the invitation of WMD Awareness. His new book, The World We Made focuses building a sustainable, fair and compassionate world by 2050. This, he explains, means a world without nuclear weapons.
General Sir Hugh Beach: It is time to move on from 1980s rhetoric
In a response to Malcolm Chalmers’ article in the December 2013 edition of the RUSI Journal, Hugh Beach argues that it is time to move on from 1980s rhetoric of ‘unilateral’ versus ‘multilateral’ disarmament and to act in the UK’s true national interest.
General Sir Hugh Beach: How would Britain fare as a non-nuclear weapon state?
A paper given by Hugh Beach at the 60th International Pugwash Conference, Istanbul 1-5 November 2013.