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.
Programmes
Can we create a world free from nuclear weapons?
The second in our ‘We need to talk about nukes’ events with BASIC came at an interesting time for British politics:
US-UK Mutual Defense Agreement: A Violation of International Law?
“The great alliance between the United States and the United Kingdom is rooted in shared interests and shared values,” President Obama proclaimed with UK Prime Minister David Cameron by his side.
British nukes, Ebola threat & Scottish oil
Paul Ingram was interviewed by Afshin Rattansi from Going Underground. It was about Britain's nuclear capability to which Paul said “the reason we have nuclear weapons is to stay close to the Americans.”
Taking stock of the Ukraine crisis’ impact on the prospects for nuclear disarmament in Europe and wider arms control processes.
The crisis in Ukraine and its peculiar nuclear dimension has come to epitomise the features of the strategic politics in Europe.
US, the UK secretly renew nuclear treaty
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?”
The government faces difficult questions on Trident after the election
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.
Protecting the Baltics without sliding into conflict
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.