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.
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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 Verification, Nuclear Weapons, 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 […]
The Management of the UK’s Plutonium Stocks
Published on 1st October 2011 in Nuclear Weapons, Fissile Materials, Publications 2010-2014
British Pugwash response to a DECC investigation of the three options discussed in the British Pugwash report The Management of Separated Plutonium in the UK.
Stable at Zero: Maintaining a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
Published on 29th September 2011 in Nuclear Weapons, Disarmament, Events 2010-2014
Ward Wilson, Senior Fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies returned to address a British Pugwash Discussion Meeting at University College London.
British Pugwash Newsletter September 2011
Published on 1st September 2011 in Climate Change and Energy Policy, Trident, Disarmament, Newsletters
Topics include: Planetary Boundaries, The Future of Trident; 59th Pugwash conference