BASIC Executive Director Paul Ingram wrote an article in The Ecologist about Trident in the upcoming general election.
Read the full article here: http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2725836/election_2015_finally_our_chance_to_ditch_trident.html
Alex Stevenson, in this Politics.co.uk article, wrote about the relationship between the US and the UK, citing nuclear weapons as one of the connections. The article quotes Paul Ingram, Executive Director of BASIC, saying, “If there was a narrative that emerged that with limited resources the British need to focus their attention on capabilities that are more valuable to the Americans, that group-think could shift quite quickly.”
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
Paul Ingram, BASIC's Executive Director, was quoted in this Bloomberg article by Jonathan Tirone about the nuclear negotiations with Iran, saying “Failing to reach a conclusion by now was itself a high risk strategy that looks increasingly vulnerable to impatient legislators. The belief somehow that a little more time and patience will bring results is also hard to fathom. Now is a crucial moment.”
BASIC's Executive Director wrote a peice for Left Foot Forward questioning the patrolling of nuclear weapons when currently we face no strategic threat.
The period before World War I was marked by inequality, terrorism, and discontent with democracy. Sound familiar?
Paul Ingram's interview with the International Relations and Security Network was published on the Maryland Leader. The interview covered BASIC's mission, our new Next Generation project and Paul's comments on the recent Scottish independence referendum and its impacts on the debate on Britain's nuclear deterrent.
Paul Ingram was interviewed by the ISN about BASIC's mission, our new project called Next Generation that works to stimulate fresh thinking in the nuclear weapons debate and the cross-party BASIC Trident Commission, which recently published its final report on the UK’s nuclear weapons policy.