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.
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.
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
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
It won't be easy, but a world free of nuclear weapons is possible
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
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.
*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]
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Nuclear Disarmament
*Mr. Hancock:* To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to his statement at the UN Conference on Disarmament on 5 February 2008 that the UK is willing to host a technical conference of P5 nuclear laboratories on the verification of nuclear disarmament before the next Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in 2010, what /(a)/ date has been set and /(b)/ practical arrangements have been made for the meeting; and if he will make a statement. [208850]
Do we need to worry about nuclear weapons any more? After the end of the Cold War, the world stepped back from the brink of mutually-assured annihilation and nuclear stockpiles were halved. But nukes haven't gone away. In fact, they are undergoing something of a renaissance. India, Pakistan and North Korea have all recently joined the nuclear club. The US, Russia, Britain, China and France are spending billions on 'modernizing' their nuclear arsenals. So why are disarmament campaigners so upbeat?
NIS Update 14th May 2008, AWE has sacrificed its core work for new-build in a flawed business model.
*Nuclear Disarmament* *Mr. Hancock:* To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans he has to publish confidence-building verification methodologies for monitoring nuclear disarmament; and if he will make a statement. [200304] * 24 Apr 2008 : Column 2179W* *Mr. Bob Ainsworth:* The Atomic Weapons Establishment is engaged in developing technical methods and processes for verifying multilateral nuclear disarmament both nationally and in co-operation with several Norwegian defence laboratories.
*Nuclear Disarmament* *Mr. Hancock:* To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what /(a)/ financial and /(b)/ in kind contributions the Atomic Weapons Establishment has made to the (i) International Atomic Energy Agency and (ii) Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in the field of verification techniques in the last five years. [200305] *Mr. Bob Ainsworth:* AWE is a member of the IAEA's Network of Analytical Laboratories that analyse environmental samples collected by the IAEA's Department of Safeguards.
NIS legal challenge to the UK government decision to replace the Trident nuclear weapons system until 2050.
On Tuesday 10th June 2008, the high court will hear the NIS case for challenging the government's plan to renew the Trident nuclear weapons system. Grounds for the claim are that the government failed to carry out a promised Consultation and that building a new nuclear system is contrary to international law and the Non- Proliferation Treaty.
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