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
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The future of Trident
Published on 23rd February 2011 in Trident, Events 2010-2014
General Sir Hugh Beach, former Master-General of the Ordnance and Dr Nick Ritchie, Bradford Disarmament Research Centre addressed a British Pugwash discussion meeting at University College London.
British Pugwash Annual Report 2010
Published on 1st May 2010 in Trident, Nuclear Weapons, NPT, Disarmament, Annual reports, BRINDI, Remote Control Weaponry
Key topics: Advancing UK and European leadership in nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament in the runup to the May 2010 NPT Review Conference; Report: The Management of Separated Plutonium in the UK; mapping disarmament in the UK
Money spent on Trident can’t go on troops
Published on 1st April 2010 in Trident, Publications 2010-2014
British Pugwash executive committee member Gen. Sir Hugh Beach and three other former senior military commanders publish a letter in The Times questioning if the UK nuclear deterrent is value for money.
Joseph Rotblat Centenary Year
Published on 8th April 2008 in Trident, Events 2006-2009, Chemical and Biological Weapons
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.
Gorbachev’s Trident concern – Letter
Published on 10th March 2007 in Trident, Publications 2006-2009
Letter: Sandra Ionno Butcher, ‘Gorbachev’s Trident concern’, The Times, 10 March 2007