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.
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Iran Update: Number 153
- IAEA to release more data on suspected weapons activities related to Iran’s nuclear program; Tensions flare during annual member state gathering
- Tel Aviv and London ratchet up talk of military strike on Iran
This Week: Trident Commission turbines are turning
Tonight the Trident Commission hosts the first of its public events to involve Parliamentarians and others in the brewing debate over this stage in Britain’s nuclear weapons development. It will be holding a Question Time in Parliament on Britain’s nuclear choices, hosted by Anita Anand of the BBC in the chair with Baroness Williams, Julian Lewis MP, David Omand, Prof Mike Clarke and Tim Hare on the panel.
Question Time: Britain’s nuclear choices and the context
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.
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 – Do we really need Russia to Tango?
This Tuesday will mark the 20th anniversary of President George H.W. Bush’s announcement of the U.S. Presidential Nuclear Initiative (PNI). The U.S. PNI was a unilateral measure taken to reduce nuclear deployments with a focus on tactical nuclear weapons, in expectation of reciprocity from the Soviet Union.
IAEA and Iran
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will hold its fall Board meeting this week, and as usual Iran’s nuclear program will be on the agenda. Though some news reports have played up the Agency’s latest assessment as final proof that Iran is on the fast track to a nuclear weapon, others have pointed out that the IAEA’s indicators reveal a program that is moving more slowly