Just before the first anniversary of the Fukushima earthquake and tsunami, Dr Mike Weightman outlined the results of his international fact-finding mission to Japan in May 2011 on behalf of the IAEA and its implications for the British nuclear industry.
Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience: Launching Andrew Brown’s biography of Joseph Rotblat
Published on 8th February 2012 in Joseph Rotblat: Life & Work, Disarmament, Events 2010-2014, History
British Pugwash, in conjunction with Oxford University Press, launched Andrew Brown’s biography of Joseph Rotblat, Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience at a packed meeting at UCL.
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
Rotblat – a nuclear physicist in the public eye 1944-1957
Published on 18th July 2011 in Projects 2009-2012 – feed, Disarmament, Events 2010-2014, History
At the Annual Conference of the British Society for the History of Science, Exeter, British Pugwash organised a session on ‘Rotblat – a nuclear physicist in the public eye 1944-1957’.