BASIC, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Elliott School of International Affairs, NATO Watch, and Strategy International held a conference in Washington, DC on May 14 and 15, 2012, a week before the NATO Summit in Chicago.
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Review of the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit
The 2012 Nuclear Security Summit held in Seoul from March 26-27, welcomed 50 countries in reaffirming their commitment to strengthening security on nuclear materials to prevent loss, misuse and theft in order to reduce the risk of nuclear terrorism.
Study counts cost of Trident
The latest report to come from BASIC's Trident Commission by Keith Hartley was written about in Worldwide Nicosia Business Review. The article stresses how the Commission's final report will have an effect on the debate in the UK and the final decision in 2016.
Trident Cancellation Could Save UK £83.5 Billion
Defence Professionals has published an overview of the BASIC Trident Commission's latest report on defence industrial aspects and has emphasized the strong case for a review of the UK's nuclear weapons policy.
Ditching Trident ‘would save UK £84bn’
Michael Settle of Herald Scotland writes about the second BASIC Trident Commission report written by Professor Keith Hartley, and the impact it will have on the country's economy, particularly in Scotland.
Scrapping Trident nuclear missiles ‘would save £83.5bn’
Professor Keith Hartley's economic analysis for the BASIC Trident Commission is covered by Richard Norton-Taylor in The Guardian.
Forget about the taxes row: if Osborne is serious about fiscal stability, he should wield the axe on Trident
Blake Ewing, editor of Politics in Spires, a blog by Oxford and Cambridge University, highlights some of the facts presented in the Trident Commission’s second report on the defence-industrial aspects of Trident, written by Professor Keith Hartley.
BASIC in Doha – Conference on Nuclear Non-Proliferation in the Gulf
From March 21-22, 2012: BASIC organised a two-day conference at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar, in association with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs.