Pugwash UK

PUBLICATIONS

Some presentations, papers and meeting reports are available in the section Meetings.

• Bending the Rules: Morality in the Modern World - From Relationships to Politics and War (Hardcover) by Robert A. Hinde (Author). Oxford University Press, 2007. In this book, which he originally began as a joint project with Joseph Rotblat, Robert Hinde explores a deeper understanding of morality based on the behavioural sciences, and uses this perspective to explore ways to move toward the abolition of war.

• In the news:
  Dark Materials - Nuclear scientist Joseph Rotblat campaigned against the atom bomb he had helped unleash. Is it time for today's cyber scientists to heed his legacy?
  Essay by Martin Rees, The Guardian, 10 June 2006
  
  Terror or error: is humanity on the eve of destruction?, The Guardian, 29 May 2006

• Joseph Rotblat Memorial Booklet, Memorial Service, 9 December 2005, London

• Obituaries and tributes to Joseph Rotblat

• In the news: The 50-Year Shadow by Joseph Rotblat, New York Times, 17 May 2005

• Message of Professor Sir Joseph Rotblat to the Seventh Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
  Review Conference in 2005, The Atomic Mirror, 1 May 2005

• In the news: The atom bomb, Einstein and me, Joseph Rotblat in the Guardian, 20 Jan. 2005

• Statement of the 5th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Rome, 10-12 Nov. 2004

• In the news: UK's Failure on Nuclear Obligation, by Joseph Rotblat, Letter in the Times, 26 Nov. 2004.
  Nuclear fear over Iran, by John Finney, Letter in the Guardian, 25 Nov. 2004.

• British Pugwash response to the Defence White Paper 2003

• In the news: Time is Ripe to Act on Middle East Weapons, by Mohamed ElBaradei and Joseph Rotblat, Financial Times, 3 February 2004

• Statement of the 4th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Rome, 27-30 Nov. 2003.
  Joseph Rotblat wrote two papers which were presented there: Ethics in Politics and Science and Human Values.

• War No More - Eliminating Conflict in the Nuclear Age
  Robert Hinde and Joseph Rotblat (Pluto Press, 2003).

• Military Intervention and the Just War by General Hugh Beach (talk to Student Pugwash at Imperial College London on 14th Oct. 2003).

• In the news: UK 'should ban nuclear weapons', The Guardian, 3 October 2003.

• Evidence submitted in response to the House of Lords Science & Technology Select Committee inquiry into "Science and international agreements" (Oct. 2003).

• Tribute to David Kelly, by Julian Perry Robinson, Matthew Meselson and Graham Pearson

• In the news
  Obituary: David Kelly, 19 July 2003, The Guardian.
  Biological weapons expert with a reputation for thoroughness. By Nigel Fountain and Sarah A Smith; including letter by Prof. Alastair Hay.
  
  Nobel laureates tell United States: Now win the peace, The Independent, 18 April 2003
  The war is over but Iraq is in disarray. Here, seven peace prize winners [including Sir Joseph Rotblat] warn that the rest of the world may suffer too.
  
  How I learned to hate the bomb, 21 March 2003, The Guardian.
  Scientist Joseph Rotblat is more qualified than most to speak out against the current conflict - he was part of the team that developed the first atomic weapon. He tells Stephen Moss why he has spent most of his life campaigning against his creation.
  

• Global Peace Enforcement: Assessing the Requirements
  Members of the British Pugwash Group have asked that this report, together with the attached commentary by Joseph Rotblat, should be made publicly available. The report originally appeared as a submitted paper for the 50th Annual Pugwash Conference: "Eliminating the Causes of War". The views expressed in the report and commentary are those of the authors, and not necessarily of British Pugwash.
  

• Missile Defence
  Response by the British Pugwash Group (21 Jan. 2003) to the invitation made in the MoD Discussion Paper on Missile Defence dated December 2002.
  (Defence Committee of the the House of Commons, First Report on Missile Defence, which focuses on the rationale for and implications of an upgrade of the Ballistic Missile Early Warning Station at RAF Fylingdales.)
  

• In the news
  World on path to disaster, bomb pioneer warns, David Hearst, 9 January 2003, The Guardian.
  President George Bush, hijacked by hardliners in his administration, is setting the world on a course towards nuclear disaster, a founder of the nuclear deterrence policy said.
  
  We are on a slippery slope, heading for disaster, Joseph Rotblat, 8 January 2003, The Guardian.
  After the comprehensive and erudite discourses that have been presented today, my contribution may be billed as light entertainment - but I assure you that I am deadly serious.
  

• "The Nuclear Threat is Real"
  Address by Joseph Rotblat to the 3rd World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates,
  Rome, Italy, 19-20 October 2002.
  

• An End to UK Nuclear Weapons
  T Milne, H Beach, J L Finney, R S Pease, J Rotblat.
  A Report from the British Pugwash Group, 3 October 2002.
  

• India and the Bomb

  Professor Amartya Sen's Dorothy Hodgkin Lecture; Presented at the 50th Pugwash Annual Conference, Cambridge, August 2000;
  Sponsored by the British Pugwash Group
  

• Verifying Nuclear Disarmament : A Role for AWE Aldermaston
  Tom Milne and Henrietta Wilson
  A Report from The British Pugwash Group with an Introduction from Professor Jack Harris FRS, Sir Martin Rees FRS and Sir Joseph Rotblat FRS.
  

• Does Britain Need Nuclear Weapons?
  

• Nuclear Energy: Promise or Peril?

  A joint publication of the British, French & Belgian Pugwash Groups;
  Editors: C R Hill, A L Mechelynck, G Ripka & B C C van der Zwaan;
  World Scientific Publishing Company, 1999 (ISBN 981-02-4001-2)

• Annual Report: British Pugwash Group, 2004/2005

• Annual Report: British Pugwash Group, 2003/2004

• Annual Report: British Pugwash Group, 2002/2003

• Annual Report: British Pugwash Group, 2001/2002

• Annual Report: British Pugwash Group, 2000/2001

• Annual Report: British Pugwash Group, 1999/2000