On 19 November President Putin signed an executive order approving “the fundamentals of Russia’s state policy in the field of nuclear deterrence.” This declaration is essentially an update of a document that issued in 2020. It sets out Russia’s nuclear-weapon-use doctrine. Among the most important updates is this sentence – “The Russian Federation reserves the […]
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Webinar video: Prof Dan Plesch and Manuel Galileo on ‘Strategic Stability and Conventional Strikes’ 12/12/24
Watch the video of this webinar here: With the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) set to expire on Feb 5 2026, strategic weapons issues loom over relations between the major powers. Against this context, our latest webinar spread awareness of a new report ‘Masters of the Air: Strategic Stability and conventional strikes’. The report […]

AI: Implications for Peace and Security, Articles from the SYP Conference 2024
Student / Young Pugwash (SYP) organises an annual conference on peace and disarmament. The subject of the 7th conference, held in January 2024 at King’s College London, was ‘Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Peace and Security’.Our aim was to encourage new thinking on the legal, political and technical questions associated with this topic, with a focus […]

Nuclear “Counterforce” Strategies and Nuclear Arms-Racing, an interview with Prof Nick Ritchie
On 1 August Dr Vipin Narang, an Acting Assistant Secretary at the US Department of Defence, speaking at the CSIS in Washington D.C., warned that “Absent a change in the nuclear trajectories of the PRC, Russia, and North Korea, we may reach a point where a change in the size or posture of our current […]

Video now online: ‘China’s Approach to Nuclear Disarmament’, with Zhou Bo, 08/10 @ 14.00
Watch this webinar from 8 October which explored China’s call for a P5 no-first-use agreement and related nuclear policies. The meeting was chaired by Peter Jenkins, Chairman of British Pugwash. Speaker: Zhou Bo will draw on a recent article in Foreign Affairs to spell out the nuclear risk reduction potential of a P5 no-first-use agreement […]
British Pugwash Newsletter: August 2024
Items include: Video: Carlo Rovelli, Hay Festival annual lecture / interview Report: The Future for UK Defence, Diplomacy and Disarmament Recent articles and reports of interest Pugwash Forum mailing list Annual membership 1. Video: Carlo Rovelli, Hay Festival annual lecture / interview This year’s lecture featured Professor Carlo Rovelli, who spoke on how ‘Relations, […]