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.
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General Sir Hugh Beach: How would Britain fare as a non-nuclear weapon state?
Published on 1st November 2013 in Disarmament, Publications 2010-2014, Publications 2013-2014
A paper given by Hugh Beach at the 60th International Pugwash Conference, Istanbul 1-5 November 2013.
British Pugwash Newsletter September 2013
Published on 1st September 2013 in Climate Change and Energy Policy, Nuclear Weapons, Trident, Disarmament, Remote Control Weaponry, Newsletters
Topics include: Trident renewal; non-proliferation and disarmament; the military robotics debate; Launch of expert report Pathways to 2050: Three possible UK energy strategies.
British Pugwash Annual Report 2012
Published on 1st May 2013 in Climate Change and Energy Policy, Verification, Joseph Rotblat: Life & Work, Annual reports, Weapons of Mass Destruction
Key topics: Verification of nuclear weapon dismantlement and energy strategies. Key discussion meetings included: the launch of Andrew Brown’s biography of Joseph Rotblat; ‘The Lessons of Fukushima’, and ‘Generating clean energy from sunlight and maintaining biodiversity’
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.
Verification of Nuclear Weapon Dismantlement: Peer Review of the UK MoD Programme
Published on 1st November 2012 in Nuclear Weapons, Verification, Publications 2010-2014
UK MoD invited a British Pugwash working group to undertake an independent peer review of its past decade’s work towards developing a credible technical framework for the verification of dismantlement of nuclear weapons. The report presents our conclusions.