Topics covered in the British Pugwash November 2019 Newsletter include: Film & Debate – The End of Nuclear Weapons? – KCL, 28 NovRemembering General Sir Hugh BeachMultimedia from Ethical Science mini-conference, NottinghamCrowdfund appeal – Help SYP UK get to Doha 2020!New York meeting: The Erosion of Arms Control Architecture The newsletter can be found online here
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New research: Hypersonic weapon systems – Implications and arms control (Dec 2019)
Student/Young Pugwash UK is delighted to release a new report on developments with hypersonic missile technology. The paper covers the latest technologies, the key states involved, the risks posed and the potential ways forward for arms control and non-proliferation. The report was developed by Matteo Frigoli, a young legal scholar with specialist interests in space […]
Major General Sir Hugh Beach – some Pugwash recollections 2002-2019
By Dr Christopher Watson, BPG Exec Committee Hugh Beach, who died on 4 September 2019, was born on 23 May 1923 to Constance and William H Beach (who was latterly a Major-General & engineer-in-chief of the Indian Army). Hugh was educated at Winchester and Peterhouse, Cambridge (getting Firsts in both parts of the Mechanical Science […]
Multimedia available – Ethical Science? – Nottingham University – 23rd October 2019
British Pugwash co-hosted with University of Nottingham Physics Department a mini-conference about ethical issues in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The conference was open to all ages and disciplines. The agenda is below. The conference was reviewed by Nottingham’s Professor Philip Moriarty (here) in a blog post titled ‘Some down-to-earth, blue sky thinking’. Ethical […]
The End of Nuclear Weapons? (28th Nov, KCL)
Unfortunately, due to high demand, tickets are no longer available for this event. ——- British Pugwash will screen the new, hour-long documentary – The Beginning of the End of Nuclear Weapons – about the ideas and campaigners behind the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear weapons. Trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3_bKtdtqRM&t=1s Following this, Dr Salma Shaheen (War […]
Ethics of Biotech – 17th Oct – Warwick Pugwash event
Warwick Pugwash Student Society (WPSS) welcomes Dr. Simon Jenkins for a discussion about recent discoveries in the field of biotechnology and gene editing, and the ethical concerns that arise around them. After the event, attendees will go to Terrace Bar to continue the conversation. There will be free pizza during the talk. All welcome!