This collection of background papers is published on the same day as the final report from the Commission and can be read alongside it. They are not representative of the views of the Commission but rather of the authors that submitted them. They have fed into the Commission’s deliberations and have been affected by them.
Trident Commission
Des Browne on prospects for nuclear disarmament under new US leadership
Co-chair of the BASIC Trident Commission, Rt Hon Lord Browne of Ladyton, discusses multilateral disarmament and the prospects of nuclear disarmament under new US leadership. Film courtesy of TalkWorks, December 2009.
Getting to Zero Update
The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) officially entered into force on February 5, 2011, and Russian and American leaders expressed their expectations for another, more challenging round, of arms control negotiations. BASIC has established a new high-level Trident Commission to examine the decisions around the United Kingdom’s nuclear weapons system.