The launch of Dr Nick Ritchie’s book A Nuclear Weapons Free World? Britain, Trident and the Challenges Ahead (Palgrave, 2012) addressed the question: Why is the UK still committed to nuclear weapons, what are the prospects for a change in UK policy, and what does the UK process tell about the prospects for disarmament?
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British Pugwash Newsletter September 2011
Published on 1st September 2011 in Trident, Climate Change and Energy Policy, Disarmament, Newsletters
Topics include: Planetary Boundaries, The Future of Trident; 59th Pugwash conference
What price nuclear blackmail?
Published on 1st July 2011 in Trident, Publications 2010-2014
General Sir Hugh Beach challenges the doctrine of nuclear deterrence, arguing that nuclear weapons have never acted as a ‘credible’ deterrent.
Royal Society of Edinburgh, Trident – should we keep it?
Published on 23rd June 2011 in Trident, Events 2010-2014
Together with the WMD Awareness Programme, British Pugwash co-sponsored this ‘mock trial’ of Trident in Edinburgh on 23 June. Professor Michael Clarke, Director of the Royal United Services Institute, made the ‘no’ case, with the ‘yes’ arguments being put by former UK Defence Secretary and Secretary General of NATO Lord Robertson of Port Ellen.
Briefings on Nuclear Security
Published on 1st June 2011 in Nuclear Weapons, Trident, Publications 2010-2014
Background briefings produced in conjunction with the Nuclear Weapons Policy Liaison Group aim to inform British parliamentarians on the UK’s nuclear weapons policy and its context.
British Pugwash Annual Report 2011
Published on 1st May 2011 in Climate Change and Energy Policy, Nuclear Weapons, Trident, Disarmament, NPT, Annual reports
Key topics: UK related nuclear weapons issues, particularly government’s decision to proceed with renewing Trident; non-proliferation and disarmament issues. New themes: future of UK energy policy; climate change and planetary boundaries