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. If the treaty falls, it will almost certainly spread chaos across the global […]
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Conference workshops – Afternoon – 23rd February 2019
Published on 13th January 2019 in Emerging Technologies and the Impact on Strategic Stability, Nuclear Weapons, Verification, 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? […]
SYP UK papers from Kazakhstan conference published
Published on 21st December 2018 in Nuclear Weapons, Verification, Disarmament, British Pugwash projects, International Peace & Security, Recently published, Student Young Pugwash Events
In August 2017, senior and youth members of International Pugwash met in Astana, Kazakhstan, for the 62nd Pugwash Conference – ‘Confronting New Nuclear Dangers’ (multimedia here). Russian Pugwash has recently published a selection of papers from the conference, in their new publication ‘Global and regional security issues and prospects for cooperation’. Within the collection is a […]
Rotblat Memorial Lecture – ‘Cold War Nuclear Confrontation: Lessons for Today’ – 21st November 2018
Published on 5th December 2018 in Nuclear Weapons, Verification, Disarmament, NPT, Events, Weapons of Mass Destruction, History, International Peace & Security, Student Young Pugwash Events
On 21st November, British Pugwash was delighted to co-organise with the Polish Embassy UK the Sir Joseph Rotblat Memorial Lecture. This year’s topic was: ‘Joseph Rotblat and the Cold War Nuclear Confrontation: Lessons for Today’ Our guest speaker was Sir Rodric Braithwaite GCMG. Sir Rodric’s distinguished career included stints as the UK Ambassador in Moscow […]
SYP events – Winter 2018 – space, Nobel, Salisbury, fake news
Published on 17th October 2018 in Joseph Rotblat: Life & Work, Nuclear Weapons, Emerging Technologies and the Impact on Strategic Stability, Verification, Events, Disarmament, Ethics of Science, Chemical and Biological Weapons, Weapons of Mass Destruction, History, International Peace & Security, Student Young Pugwash Events
8th October, 6pm – 7pm, OC0.01 (The Oculus, University of Warwick) Roundtable discussion: Outer space and society Organised by: Warwick SYP 23rd October, 6:00-7:30. MS.04 (Maths & Stats, University of Warwick) How to win a Nobel Peace Prize? Guest speakers: Dr Rebecca Johnson (ICAN) and Professor John Finney Organised by: Warwick SYP 31st October, 5pm-6:30pm, SOAS London ‘The […]
British Pugwash Newsletter October 2018
Published on 4th October 2018 in Climate Change and Energy Policy, Nuclear Weapons, Verification, Disarmament, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Newsletters, International Peace & Security
Topics covered in the British Pugwash Late 2018 Newsletter include: The state of the Iran nuclear deal Nuclear power – future prospects Researchers oppose EU military research programme Killer robots (guest piece by Article 36) Upcoming events Download here