A session of the Euroscience Open Forum in Barcelona on 19 July 2008, organised by British and French Pugwash and the WMD Awareness Programme, discussed the way in which scientific and technical considerations are used in nuclear weapons decision-making in Europe, and contrasted it with the situation in the US.
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Joseph Rotblat Centenary Year
At a special meeting at University College London on 8 April 2008 to launch the Joseph Rotblat Centenary Year, speakers were Nobel Laureate Prof. Sir John Sulston, Prof. Alistair Hay and John Ainslie.
Robert Hinde – Letter to the Guardian
Letter: Robert Hinde, Chair, British Pugwash Group, to The Guardian, 23 January 2008. Five retired military commanders comment on Nato strategy to counter international terrorism.
Letters – Nuclear Weapons
Letter: Robert Hinde ‘Nuclear Weapons’, The Independent, 12 March 2007
Gorbachev’s Trident concern – Letter
Letter: Sandra Ionno Butcher, ‘Gorbachev’s Trident concern’, The Times, 10 March 2007
Trident Replacement: A Critical View from Scotland
Professor William Walker, co-Author of Uncharted Waters: The UK Nuclear Weapons and the Scottish Question discussed the issue of Trident replacement from a Scottish Perspective at a British Pugwash meeting on 31 January 2007 at the British Institute of Radiology, London.