Paul Ingram and BASIC featured in EU Non-Proliferation Consortium

BASIC's executive director, Paul Ingram, was interviewd for 'nonproliferation.eu', the monthly newsletter from the EU Non-Proliferation Consortium. The interview focused on BASIC's work in support of the establishment of a WMD-free zone in the Middle East and how civil society can contribue to the debate. BASIC is hosting a track II meeting in coordination with the Finnish Ambassador, Jaakko Laajava and his team for the end of October in support of the Helsinki Conference to create a WMD-free zone in the Middle East, due to take place in the next few months.

Israel lobby to affect Iran-G5+1 talks in Moscow: analyst

BASIC's executive director, Paul Ingram, was interviewed by the Islamic Republic News Agency for some insight analysis on the G5+1 (also known as the E3+3 and the P5+1) talks with Iran in Moscow on June 18-19, 2012.

U.S. Tactical nuclear weapons in Europe: “Politically, a bad idea”

Ted Seay, BASIC policy consultant, was interviewed on tactical nuclear weapons and NATO defence policies by the German newspaper Die Tageszeitung after the Shadow NATO Summit III in Washington, D.C.

NATO’s Twin Crises

John Feffer, a panelist at the Shadow NATO Summit III in Washington earlier this month, wrote an article for IPS about the “existential and fiscal crisis” facing NATO. Feffer takes quotes and discussion points from panelists at the Shadow Summit, including Juliane Smith, deputy national security advisor to Vice President Joseph Biden.

“Concern Grows Over Prospects for Middle East Disarmament Meeting”

BASIC's Program Director Anne Penketh is interviewed by Elizabeth Whitman in this article covering the slow pace of progress toward holding a conference on a WMD-Free Zone in the Middle East in 2012.

Leading Experts on NATO’s Nuclear Policy and Turkish Security [JTW Interview]

“The threat perceptions of Turkey and the other NATO alliances are overlapped to some extent but not completely……. That's where the real debate inside NATO comes from; it's from differing threat perceptions.”

Dr Ian Kearns, BASIC's Research Director was interviewed after the roundtable along with other particpants.

Arabs seek to challenge Israel’s nuclear program at energy summit

“The Israelis and the Americans point to the fact that the Iranians have made a very public commitment to the Non-Proliferation Treaty – not to acquire nuclear weapons – whereas Israel is legally able to develop its arsenal.”….. “But the legal defense and the defense that Israel developed its weapons a while ago is hardly a defense in terms of justice”

Tony Blair’s Book Offers Insights on Alliances

BASIC’s Research Director, Dr Ian Kearns was interviewed by Traci Watson for USA TODAY.