Using the Question Time format, audience members were invited to submit questions on the United Kingdom\’s nuclear weapons posture and plans on October 31. Anita Anand, BBC presenter on Radio 4 and 5, was the Chair.
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Media Release: First BASIC Trident Commission Paper Points To Worrying Trends in the World’s Nuclear Armed States
The BASIC Trident Commission publishes its first discussion paper Monday 31 October on recent worrying developments in the nuclear force structures of the world’s nuclear armed states. The report argues that “the evidence points to a new era of global nuclear force modernisation and growth”. The paper published with a Foreword from the Commission co-Chairs, is written by Ian Kearns and present evidence that:
Beyond the UK: Trends in the Other Nuclear Armed States
This first BASIC Trident Commission briefing outlines recent worrying developments in the nuclear force structures of the world’s nuclear armed states. It argues that “the evidence points to a new era of global nuclear force modernisation and growth”.
This Week: Hope for North Korea Talks?
It’s election season in the United States, and the US delegation at talks in Geneva this week with North Korean officials will have one priority in mind – to avoid a provocation by nuclear-armed North Korea
Finland to host 2012 conference on WMD-free zone in Middle East
Anne Penketh is quoted by Elizabeth Whitman of Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency in an article on the host goverment and facilitator picked for the 2012 conference on a WMD-free zone in the Middle East.
Finland will host 2012 meeting to start talks on nuclear free Mideast
Anne Penketh was quoted by the Associated Press in an October 14 2011 article on the UN announcement that Finland will host, and provide a facilitator for, the 2012 conference on a WMD-free zone in the Middle East.
This Week: WMDFZ Middle East
Finnish diplomat Jaakko Laajava starts a new job this week.
Finland, the cradle of the Helsinki process that played a vital role in ending the Cold War, is no stranger to international mediation. But this could be the toughest assignment yet for Finland’s undersecretary of state at the foreign ministry, who was named last Friday to be facilitator of the 2012 conference on a zone free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East.
This Week: Reykjavik 25 years
It was cold, wet and windy but it was uniquely exhilarating. The Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Reykjavik, which I covered 25 years ago as a reporter, produced 24 hours of adrenalin-fuelled highs and lows as the Soviet and US leaders raised hopes of a historic agreement on a nuclear weapons free world only to spectacularly dash them.