Topics include: Trident renewal; non-proliferation and disarmament; the military robotics debate; Launch of expert report Pathways to 2050: Three possible UK energy strategies.
Hans Blix The outlook for peace and disarmament
Dr Hans Blix, the former UN Chief Weapons Inspector who led the inspections in Iraq in 2002-03, gave the 9th Joseph Rotblat lecture at Hay Literary Festival on 26 May 2013. He said he would vote for a place for the UK in the Guinness Book of Records, if it dropped the plan to renew […]
British Pugwash Annual Report 2012
Key topics: Verification of nuclear weapon dismantlement and energy strategies. Key discussion meetings included: the launch of Andrew Brown’s biography of Joseph Rotblat; ‘The Lessons of Fukushima’, and ‘Generating clean energy from sunlight and maintaining biodiversity’
The link between non-proliferation and disarmament in the NPT: is there consensus behind the conflict?
Final report of a British Pugwash Group project that aimed identify possible grounds for a new consensus on the link between non-proliferation and disarmament in the context of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, with consideration for the potential role of the UK.
Report of a Workshop: The ethics of military robotics
Report from a scoping workshop to examine the ethical implications of current and possible future developments in modern military robotics, held on 20-22 March 2013 at the University of Birmingham.
The foreign-policy implications of the Trident replacement debate
Deterrence and defence policies are at the core of Britain’s Trident replacement policy debates. The strategic foreign policy implications of the replacement debate for Britain also require closer consideration. These were some of the conclusions of an IISS discussion meeting at Arundel House on ‘The foreign-policy implications of the Trident replacement debate’ on 13 March.