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Pugwash Peace & Disarmament Conference 2019 – multimedia report!

Published on 11th March 2019 in Nuclear Weapons, Verification, Emerging Technologies and the Impact on Strategic Stability, Disarmament, Events, Ethics of Science, Weapons of Mass Destruction, British Pugwash projects, Remote Control Weaponry, Recent events, Recently published, Student Young Pugwash Events

Student / Young Pugwash UK held its fourth Annual Conference in February 2019, titled ‘Pugwash Peace & Disarmament Conference‘. It explored the prospects for arms control and disarmament over the coming years, with focuses on nuclear weapons and emerging technologies.…

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Pugwash delegation in Moscow to discuss arms control

Published on 4th February 2019 in Nuclear Weapons, Verification, Emerging Technologies and the Impact on Strategic Stability, Disarmament, Current projects – feed, Events, Weapons of Mass Destruction, British Pugwash projects, International Peace & Security

From 27-29 January, a Pugwash delegation comprising the Secretary General, Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Chair of British Pugwash Group, Peter Jenkins, and Pugwash Council Members Götz Neuneck, Alexander Nikitin, and Alexander Dynkin had a series of meetings in Moscow to discuss the future of arms control as part of a new Pugwash project.…

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Student Pugwashites attended arms control winter course in Italy (ISODARCO 2019)

Published on 23rd January 2019 in Nuclear Weapons, Verification, Trident, Emerging Technologies and the Impact on Strategic Stability, Disarmament, NPT, Current projects – feed, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Recent events, International Peace & Security, Student Young Pugwash Events

Three members of Student/Young Pugwash UK attended the prestigious International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts (ISODARCO), held in Trento, Italy from 6th to 13th January 2019.

ISODARCO is an annual, intensive course for scholars and practitioners, featuring high-profile lecturers from around the world.…

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Pugwash Peace & Disarmament Conference – SYP UK Annual Conference

Published on 15th January 2019 in Nuclear Weapons, Verification, Trident, Emerging Technologies and the Impact on Strategic Stability, Disarmament, Events, Chemical and Biological Weapons, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Remote Control Weaponry, Recent events, Student Young Pugwash Events

Student/Young Pugwash UK is collaborating with British Pugwash to host a major, one-day conference exploring the prospects for arms control and disarmament over the coming years.

The conference will be on 23rd February 2019 at SOAS, London.…

Warwick meeting: 24/01/19 – ‘The Death of the Iran Deal and Nuclear Instability’

Published on 14th January 2019 in Nuclear Weapons, Verification, Events, Weapons of Mass Destruction, British Pugwash projects, Recent events, International Peace & Security, Student Young Pugwash Events

Blurb by Warwick Student/Young Pugwash:

A nuclear storm gathers over the Middle East.

Reckless American foreign policy has almost certainly doomed the Iran Nuclear Deal, the only instrument standing between Iran and the acquisition of the deadliest device to have ever existed.…

Conference workshops – Afternoon – 23rd February 2019

Published on 13th January 2019 in Nuclear Weapons, Verification, Emerging Technologies and the Impact on Strategic Stability, Disarmament, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Remote Control Weaponry, International Peace & Security, Student Young Pugwash Events

Workshop A: Emerging technologies

  • The proposed treaty on autonomous weapons (‘killer robots’) – Ben Donaldson – United Nations Association UK
  • Social Media: Weapon of Mass confusion – David Almassi – Warwick Pugwash
  • Malware Proliferation and Challenges to International Security: Understanding the Impact on Critical Infrastructure – Muhammed Ali – Plymouth University
  • Emerging technologies: Making nuclear weapons irrelevant?
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