Essays & Papers

Nuclear disarmament is linked to many vital issues and we have commissioned short ‘linking essays’ from other individuals, organisations, and campaigns to make these links more explicit and to deepen our understanding of the bigger picture within which we are working.

Essays and articles which make the connections between nuclear weapons and the big issuses impacting on the world today.

• Finance, War and Conflict, by Mary Mellor
• Nuclear Weapons and Militarisation in the UK, by Owen Everett
• Arms companies, nuclear weaponry and the military, by Kaye Stearman, Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT)
• Civil Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons Proliferation,by Pete Roche
• Corrosive links: health, nuclear weapons, and militarization,by Marion Birch of the Nuclear Issues Group MEDACT
• Drones, cyberwarfare and democracy by Paul Mobbs, Mobbs Environmental Investigations
• From Banning Nuclear Testing to Banning Nuclear Weapons, by Rebecca Johnson
• Of sledgehammers and nuts: counter-terrorism and anti-nuclear protest, by Sian Jones
• Oxford Research Group Special Briefing: Chances for Peace in the Second Decade – What is Going Wrong and What We Must Do by Paul Rogers
• Linking U.S. Military Empire & UK Nuclear Weapons,
  by Bruce Gagnon
• Refugees and asylum-seekers: human debris of the West’s war machine, by Dr Trevor Trueman, Chair, Oromia Support Group.
• Science for Peace in the 21st Century,By Lucas Wirl, Program Director of International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility
• Swords and Ploughshares: industrial agriculture as warfare and the need for a paradigm shift by Helena Paul, Econexus
• The Future of the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Deterrent: An Ethical Critique by John M. Hull
• The Use of Radioactive Material in War, by Jo Baker
• To help stop the dangers of a nuclear war or slip into World War III, don’t replace Trident,by Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate
• Who profits from the Atomic Weapons Establishment? by Tom Anderson, Corporate Watch
• Why climate change and nuclear disarmament talks must be linked, by Kevin Lister
• Women, men and nuclear weapons, by Cynthia Cockburn