This article quotes Paul Ingram on the Mutual Defense Agreement (MDA) between the US and UK:
“The manifestation of the deep political, cultural, and philosophical relationship between [the US and the UK]”
“[But] how can it possibly be effective to criticize North Korea for allegedly supplying nuclear and missile technology to states like Syria and Iran when we trade between ourselves technologies directly relevant to constructing nuclear warheads, missiles, and submarines?”
This article was written by Paul Ingram and was published on the Left Foot Forward. The article talks about the decisions the British government has to face over Trident after the Scottish referendum.
In the old Cold War in Europe, there was only one serious flashpoint, one place where a dangerous confrontation between Western and Russian forces was likely, and that was Berlin. In today’s confrontation there are many, stretching from the Caucuses to the Baltic Sea.
Paul Ingram was quoted in an article about the UK's confirmation about renewing the Mutual Delfence Agreement (MDA) with the United States.
He said: “In governing exceptional nuclear weapon collaboration between the US and UK that has contested legal basis, the MDA is the manifestation of the deep political, cultural and philosophical relationship between the two states.”
Despite a renewed sense of purpose with a change in leadership and the crisis in Ukraine, the alliance continues to court its own irrelevancy.
BASIC's event was publicized on this page. This event was part of our Talking Trident series which was held in Edinburgh, Scotland along with WMD Awareness.
Ward Wilson, a senior fellow at BASIC and author of Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons was interviewed by Rob Kall on his radio show Rob Kall Bottum Up. interview was about the work that Ward does and his beliefs and views on nuclear weapons.
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.