Trident needs a sensible, mature debate. Labour MPs’ bickering simply plays into the Tories’ hands by deflecting attention from their European split by Owen Jones via The Guardian Last night, a group of Labour MPs yelled down the shadow defence secretary, Emily...
Trident
Labour party members may get say on Trident policy
Jeremy Corbyn says executive to decide whether to introduce rules that could see end of support for nuclear deterrent Jeremy Corbyn has cleared the way for Labour party members to be given a decisive role in whether to change policy on the Trident nuclear...
Dangerous and Inhumane: UK Nuclear Policy and Humanitarian Nuclear Ban Strategies by Rebecca Johnson
Dangerous and Inhumane: UK Nuclear Policy and Humanitarian Nuclear Ban Strategies by Rebecca Johnson Chapter 9 in Andrew Futter (ed.), The United Kingdom and the Future of Nuclear Weapons, Rowman & Littlefield, 2016 To download this PDF please click on the link...
The Austrian Pledge to Ban Nuclear Weapons
by Dr Rebecca Johnson Driven by “the imperative of human security for all", Austria pledged at the HINW conference to work to "stigmatise, prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons in light of their unacceptable humanitarian consequences and associated risksâ€....
Gathering speed to ban nuclear weapons
The Third International Conference on the Humanitarian Impacts of Nuclear Weapons (HINW) opens in Vienna today, with arguments for humanitarian disarmament growing in strength. This time the UK and the US will attend. What will be the likely outcome? by Rebecca...
Preventable Threats: The Humanitarian Risks of Nuclear Weapons: UK Risks & Challenges
Banning nuclear weapons and unchaining from nuclear dependence
Rebecca Johnson's chapter on "Banning Nuclear Weapons: necessary and achievable (in our lifetimes) in World in Chains, edited by Angie Zelter, published by Luath Press, Edinburgh 2014. This book analyses the range of military, economic and political dependencies that...
Written Evidence for the House of Commons Defence Select Committee On Deterrence and the changing role and requirements for security
by Rebecca Johnson
Introduction and Key Points from the Edinburgh Conference by Rebecca Johnson
Introduction and Key Points from the Edinburgh Conference by Rebecca Johnson in Rebecca Johnson and Angie Zelter (eds.), Trident and International Law, Scotland’s Obligations, Luath Press 2011 (Edited proceedings of Conference on Trident, Scotland and International...