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.
NextGen
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:
Talking about Trident & the Next Generation of Global Threats
BASIC and WMD Awareness kicked off their Talking Trident: A Conversation with the Next Generation event series on July 9th in Shoreditch in east London. These events are a series of debates being held to give young adults in Britain the opportunity to express their opinions on the issue of nuclear weapons before the government makes a decision on whether to renew its nuclear system, Trident, in 2016.
Are nuclear weapons cut out to meet the security challenges of the next generation?
This is a hard question to answer because of the complexity in trying to predict the future. We have some idea of what international security challenges we may face in one, five, and even ten years time, but further than that our predictions become educated guesses.
Next Generation
BASIC’s NextGen project aims to inspire the next generation to think differently about nuclear weapons by injecting fresh thinking into the nuclear weapons discussion.