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VOICE
YOUR VISION
2010 Science, Ethics and Politics Competition
in honour of Nobel Peace Laureate Joseph Rotblat

What advice
would you give the next British Government
on a key science or technology topic?
The
contest is open to all persons aged 18-35 residing in the UK,
or those
enrolled as a full-time student in a UK University, at the time
of submission.
Deadline for submissions is midnight on 30 April 2010.
A PDF
of the flyer (including competition guidelines) is available here.
A copy of the registration form is available here.
For further details, please go to the UK
Student Young Pugwash website.

2008
Joseph Rotblat Essay Competition
Christopher
Watson, Merton College Oxford & British Pugwash Group.
Presented at "Progressing the nuclear disarmament agenda: Policy,
diplomacy and science," the Rotblat Centenary Celebration, co-sponsored
by the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs and the British
Pugwash Group, Wednesday, 10 December 2008, The Royal Society.
The
Role of Independent Scientists in Assessing the Threat of WMD,
a NATO Advanced Research Workshop, co-directed by Professor John Finney
(Chair, British Pugwash) and Professor Ivo Slaus (former Chair, Croatian
Pugwash). Zagreb, 11-16 November 2008. For more information, click
here.
Evidence-based
policy or policy-based evidence? Nuclear weapons decision-making in
Europe, Euroscience Open Forum, Barcelona, July 19. (For
more information click here.)
Promoting
a Nuclear Weapons Free World
Technical
Critique of Trident Modernisation Arguments
British Pugwash is currently
engaged in discussions on warhead-related issues, among other topics.
Please check back for updates.
"Trident
is ‘no bloody use’ says General", by Rob Edwards, Sunday
Herald (Glasgow), 26 April 2009. BPG Council Member Sir Hugh
Beach calls for nuclear decommissioning: "It's no bloody use.
Let's not waste money on it." (click here).
The
Need for Robust Independent Assessment of Rationales for New Warheads,
comment by BPG Chair
John Finney and Sandra Ionno Butcher, 25 July 2008.
On the occasion of the
50th anniversary of the first Pugwash Conference, on 7 July 2007,
Prof. John Finney and Sandra Ionno Butcher participated in a ceremony
during which a letter from Robert Hinde formally presented Joseph
Rotblat's Nobel Peace Prize to the Pugwash Peace Exchange.
Sandra Ionno Butcher also
delivered a talk on the history of Pugwash on 7 July 2007, for the
townspeople of Pugwash, Nova Scotia. This talk, "What
Pugwash Means to the World."
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