What role do nuclear weapons play in popular culture, like video games? To celebrate national video games day on 12/9, SYP UK’s Emily Faux will host a discussion with 4 experts: Dr Megan Condis (TexasTech University) Dr Cameron Hunter (University of Leicester) Professor Joseph November (University of South Carolina) Rebekah Pullen (McMaster University) Tune in […]
Pugwash note on the outcome of the 10th NPT Review Conference
Published on 1st September 2022 in Nuclear Weapons, Disarmament, NPT, International Peace & Security
Pugwash notes with regret that the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) have not been able to achieve consensus on a Final Document at the Tenth Review Conference. The NPT is an important element of the multilateral disarmament and non-proliferation regime, and all Parties must continue to support it in […]
Dr Christopher Watson
Published on 21st August 2022 in Recent events
With great sadness British Pugwash learned of the death of a former chairman, Dr Christopher Watson, on 17 August. Christopher had a career spanning 35 years in the UK nuclear industry, including 17 years at Culham, working on Controlled Fusion research (culminating in 5 years on the JET project). He then worked as a research […]
Pugwash at the 2022 NPT Review Conference
Published on 17th August 2022 in Disarmament, NPT, Recent events, International Peace & Security, Recently published
On 12 August 2022 International Pugwash co-hosted a meeting with the Mission of Brazil to the United Nations in the sidelines of the 10th Review Conference of the NPT. More than 50 delegates and experts attended the event, which featured presentations by Professor Paolo Cotta Ramusino (Pugwash Secretary-General), Ambassador Wael Al Assad (Senior Adviser […]
Pugwash Note on Present Dangers
Published on 27th June 2022 in Current projects – feed, International Peace & Security, Recently published
The below Pugwash Note was written by Sergio Duarte, President, and Dr Paolo Cotta Ramusino, Secretary-General, of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. The present global situation is very dangerous. Not since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis have we had such a dangerous environment. But while the Cuban missile crisis lasted 13 days, […]
Young citizen journalists reporting from international disarmament conferences
Published on 10th June 2022 in Current projects – feed, Student Young Pugwash Events, Student Young Pugwash Upcoming Events
Atomic Reporters & SYP UK Partnership: Student/Young Pugwash (SYP) UK is pleased to support the work of Atomic Reporters (here), who will be sending a team of citizen journalists to Vienna to cover three back-to-back disarmament conferences this month. From mid-June, the team from Atomic Reporters will be at: The first meeting of member states […]