Topics include: Trident renewal; non-proliferation and disarmament; the military robotics debate; Launch of expert report Pathways to 2050: Three possible UK energy strategies.
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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.
British Pugwash Newsletter September 2012
Published on 16th September 2012 in Climate Change and Energy Policy, Nuclear Weapons, Verification, Newsletters
Topics include: report on audit of UK MoD’s programme on Verification of Dismantlement of Nuclear Weapons; participation with the Tricycle Theatre in “Nuclear Season” of plays, films and exhibitions; launch of Andrew Brown’s biography of Joseph Rotblat, Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience
Rose Gottemoeller: progress towards ‘nuclear zero’
Published on 10th June 2012 in Nuclear Weapons, Verification, Disarmament, Events 2010-2014
Rose Gottemoeller: progress towards ‘nuclear zero’. This year’s Joseph Rotblat Memorial Lecture at the Hay Festival on 10 June was given by Rose Gottemoeller, Acting Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security in the Obama Administration, and US Chief Negotiator for the new START treaty. This annual lecture is organized by WMD Awareness and […]