First convened in 2008, this group of experts has continued to meet regularly to coordinate and maintain effective and positive working links with parliamentarians across the political spectrum on UK nuclear weapons issues, in particular in relation to the renewal of the UK’s Trident nuclear weapons system.
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Trident and the Scottish Referendum
British Pugwash discussion meeting: Professor Malcolm Chalmers and Professor William Walker debated the future of the UK’s nuclear arsenal and particularly Trident following the outcome of the Scottish independence referendum.
British Pugwash Newsletter September 2014
Topics include: The launch of BRINDI; Trident issues; WMDA Talking Trident; The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; The ethics of developing technologies; Meeting: Security by remote control – can it work?
British Pugwash Annual Report 2013
Key topics: Trident renewal, NPT Reaching Consensus project, the Disarmament Institute (BRINDI), and continued work on verification of disarmament; new science and ethics focus on the military robotics debate; developing work on UK energy policy; International Pugwash 60th conference
Jonathon Porritt The World We Made
The 10th Rotblat annual lecture at the Hay Festival was delivered on 30 May 2014 by Jonathon Porritt, at the invitation of WMD Awareness. His new book, The World We Made focuses building a sustainable, fair and compassionate world by 2050. This, he explains, means a world without nuclear weapons.
Do “proliferating nuclear threats” justify Trident renewal?
Peter Jenkins, former UK Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency and Shashank Joshi, Research Fellow at RUSI debated the accuracy of Defence Minister Philip Hammond’s claim that proliferating nuclear threats justify Trident renewal.