The United Kingdom will play host to the “P5 Process” meeting with the United States, China, Russia, and France on February 4-5th to discuss obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Publication
Trident – UK’s Instruments of Armageddon
In Dissident Voice, Jim McCluskey wrote about Trident, citing BASIC's Trident Commission report.
Read the full article here: http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/01/trident-uks-instruments-of-armageddon/
Trident: Parliament debates £100bn project – at last
Ewan Macaskill and Richard Norton-Taylor wrote an article in The Guardian about the Trident debate, citing BASIC's Trident Commission report which called the UK's nuclear deterrent “a hostage to American goodwil.”
Read the full article here: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/defence-and-security-blog/2015/jan/20/trident-uk-s-nuclear-arsenal-commons-debate
Toward the 2015 NPT Review Conference: Attitudes and Expectations of Member States in the Middle East
What might happen if States Parties from one of the most volatile regions in the world were to reconsider their membership of the principle international treaty that controls the deadliest weapons on Earth? Almost 20 years since the indefinite extension of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), members of the Arab League have threatened to reconsider their position toward that extension on the basis that there has been no progress on the 1995 resolution associated with establishing a Middle East Zone free from weapons of mass destruction.
WMD-Free Zone in the Middle East
This factsheet outlines various facets of the proposals and attempts to establish a WMD-free zone…
Response to the Trident Commission Concluding Report
The Commission’s concluding report, published on 1 July 2014, is intended to inform a more considered debate over Britain’s nuclear weapon policy focused on national security, mindful of the politics and the strategic and diplomatic context. This is a direct response to the report and represents the views of the author. BASIC publishes it here as part of an ongoing discussion.
Against the Tide: Why the Trident Commission’s views are outdated and out of touch
The Trident Commission, spearheaded by BASIC, launched its concluding report on July 1st, and it is expected to add significant value to the debate on whether or not to keep Britain’s nuclear deterrent. As part of that debate, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has written a report which almost point by point rebuts the Trident Commission's findings.
Launch of the Trident Commission’s concluding report
BASIC set up the Trident Commission in 2011 as an inquiry into Britain’s nuclear weapon policy. Its final report, published today, represents the collective views of the eight Commission members after engaging in an intense three-year process. The primary purpose of this report is to contribute to an informed and deeper debate on Trident renewal that focuses on national security in its widest sense. We are experiencing rapid strategic change in this century and the relevance of our major defence investments to tomorrow’s threats must be analysed across a wide range of considerations.