Our new video blog shows an interview with NIS Director Peter Burt about the implications of the new US-Russia START arms control treaty and the contradictions in President Obama's arms control programme.
Disarmament & nonproliferation latest news
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A Good START
First thoughts on the proposed new US-Russia START treaty from NIS researcher Steven Hendry.
It was announced today that Presidents Obarma and Medvedev had come to an agreement in reducing their arsenal of deployed nuclear weapons. Subject to ratification, the long awaited agreement will replace the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty and commits both sides to reducing their collection of warheads by around 30% of currently agreed levels.
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All eyes on Obama as NPT Review conference approaches
The Royal Society has just published an excellent new briefing highlighting how the scientific community can support nuclear arms control and disarmament initiatives, and the report was launched at a conference a couple of days ago with th
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NPT Review conference: what will Britain’s role be?
The Mayors for Peace delegation in action at the Foreign Office
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Arms Control: Nuclear Weapons – Hansard 2nd June 2009
Hansard UK Parliamentary report Written Question & Answer 2 Jun 2009 : Column 375W*
Arms Control: Nuclear Weapons
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Hansard on AWE and Trident Replacement, 20th April, 2009
20 Apr 2009 : Column 58W AWE Management
Nick Harvey: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether (a) public-private partnership and (b) private finance initiative arrangements may be put in place under the AWE Aldermaston management contract. [269710]
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Evidence of government multilateral disarmament gestures?
23 October 2008 Hansard
*Column 476W*
*Michael Ancram* (Devizes, Conservative)To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what steps the Government is taking to promote multilateral nuclear disarmament. -
Conservative Party Policy on nuclear non-proliferation
UK Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague speech on Nuclear
Non-Proliferation, 23 July 2008
/Address to the IISS by Rt Hon William Hague MP, Shadow Foreign
Secretary, 23 July 2008./The Rt Hon William Hague MP, “Preventing a new age of nuclear
insecurity”, International Institute of Strategic Studies,
Wednesday 23rd July 2008
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Former government ministers call for nuclear disarmament
Start worrying and learn to ditch the bomb,
Letter to The Times by Douglas Hurd, Malcolm Rifkind, David Owen and George Robertson, 30 June 2008
From The Times, www.timesonline.co.uk, 30 June 2008.Start worrying and learn to ditch the bomb
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ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW INQUIRY: GLOBAL SECURITY: NON-PROLIFERATION
Please find the attached Announcement of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee consultation inviting submissions no later than 29th September 2008. NIS will make a submission on Treaty legal obligations and Disarmament Verification.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW INQUIRY: GLOBAL SECURITY: NON-PROLIFERATION
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Judicial Review of Trident Replacement
On Tuesday 10th June, Mr. Justice Simon refused the Nuclear Information Service (NIS) permission to bring a Judicial Review of the Government's White Paper, 'The Future of the United Kingdom's Nuclear Deterrent', published on 4 December 2006. Judge Simons did not accept that The White Paper's assertion of compatibility of the Government's decision to replace the UK's nuclear weapons system with its international law obligations requires adjudication by a Court.
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Hansard on Nuclear Disarmament, 9th June 2008
*9 Jun 2008 : Column 3W*
Nuclear Disarmament
*Mr. Dai Davies:* To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs with reference to the answer of 18 July 2007, /Official Report,/ column 409W, on nuclear disarmament, what progress has been made by the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston in taking forward proposals to develop a disarmament laboratory. [208320]