Nuclear Information Service Update August 2022
Posted: 9th August 2022
NIS update: August 2022
John Ainslie’s Archives
John Ainslie was an internationally respected nuclear weapons researcher, author and campaigner with Scottish
CND. He collected a large archive of documents, reports, press cuttings, declassified memos and correspondence which contains many items of interest to researchers today. Thanks to funding received we have been busy scanning and uploading the archive to our website library – It’s a work in progress but you can already search over 1000 documents dating from the Cold War period up to recent times.
Read moreNew report from NIS
Our latest report, ‘Extreme Circumstances: The UK’s new nuclear warhead in context’ will be published later this week. The report examines the reasoning behind replacing the warhead, the expected characteristics, the costs, the timeline and the relationship to the US new warhead. It also discusses the tensions with the Non-proliferation treaty and makes recommendations.
Read more.
Webinar: Extreme Circumstances
NIS is hosting a webinar to discuss our new report on Thursday September 8 at 14:00. Join the author David Cullen (NIS), Kate Hudson (CND) and Nick Ritchie (University of York) chaired by Tim Street (NIS). The discussion will be followed by a Q&A. Register now
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