On 2nd March 2017, Warwick Pugwash collaborated with Warwick International Relations Society to host KCL’s Dr Heather Williams. Dr Williams spoke about the politics and practicalities of ‘nuclear disarmament during peacetime’. As is tradition, the meeting was followed by pizza for all attendees. Student / Young Pugwash would like to thank Dr Williams for such […]
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Maritime tensions in the South China Sea – Great Warwick SYP event
Published on 9th February 2017 in Recent events, International Peace & Security, Student Young Pugwash Events
On 2nd February, Warwick SYP hosted BASIC’s Sebastian Brixey-Williams, who spoke about tensions in the South China Sea. The event, titled ‘Maritime tensions in the South China Sea – A future field for nuclear tensions’, was well attended by 40+ students and was followed by a lively discussion. Seb touched on some of these issues […]
President of Pugwash at SOAS – Nuclear issues in South Asia
Published on 20th December 2016 in Nuclear Weapons, International Peace & Security, Recent events, Student Young Pugwash Events
NB. Audio from the event can be found here. On 8th December Jayantha Dhanapala, the President of Pugwash and former Under-Secretary-General of the UN, spoke to students at SOAS about nuclear issues in South Asia. He covered the relationships between nuclear-armed states like India, China and Pakistan but also how non-nuclear states perceive and interact […]
Physics students get political – University of Nottingham seminar
Published on 8th December 2016 in Climate Change and Energy Policy, Ethics of Science, Remote Control Weaponry, Recent events, Student Young Pugwash Events
On 28th November, two members of the British Pugwash Executive Committee addressed an undergraduate Physics class at University of Nottingham. It was a lively two hours, in which students, their Professor and Pugwashites debated the ethics of autonomous robots weapons (‘Killer Robots’), the intergenerational fairness of nuclear waste storage policies and learnt about early attempts by physicists, […]
Rotblat Lecture 2016: William Perry ‘My Journey to the nuclear brink’
Published on 1st December 2016 in Nuclear Weapons, Disarmament, Recent events, International Peace & Security
The 12th Joseph Rotblat Lecture at the Hay Festival, held on 2 June 2016 in cooperation with WMD Awareness, featured William Perry, Bill Clinton’s Defence Secretary on ‘My Journey at the Nuclear Brink’, in conversation with Nik Gowing.
Global energy strategies with low temperature rises
Published on 24th November 2016 in Climate Change and Energy Policy, Recent events
In a lecture at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory on 24 November 2016, Dr Christopher Watson and Jef Ongena explored energy strategies that give a mean surface temperature rise of less than 2 degrees by 2100, as required by the Paris Agreement, using the DECC Global Calculator.