Rose Gottemoeller: progress towards ‘nuclear zero’. This year’s Joseph Rotblat Memorial Lecture at the Hay Festival on 10 June was given by Rose Gottemoeller, Acting Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security in the Obama Administration, and US Chief Negotiator for the new START treaty. This annual lecture is organized by WMD Awareness and […]
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The Management of the UK’s Plutonium Stocks
Published on 1st October 2011 in Nuclear Weapons, Fissile Materials, Publications 2010-2014
British Pugwash response to a DECC investigation of the three options discussed in the British Pugwash report The Management of Separated Plutonium in the UK.
Stable at Zero: Maintaining a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
Published on 29th September 2011 in Nuclear Weapons, Disarmament, Events 2010-2014
Ward Wilson, Senior Fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies returned to address a British Pugwash Discussion Meeting at University College London.
British Pugwash Newsletter September 2011
Published on 1st September 2011 in Climate Change and Energy Policy, Trident, 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.