Lord Browne of Ladyton on the NATO Deterrence and Defence Posture Review
In the context of a parliamentary debate in the House of Lords on 30th May 2012, Lord Browne of Ladyton published two articles on the NATO Deterrence and Defence Posture Review.
TLG member Sir Menzies Campbell MP wrote in the Financial Times on 15th May 2012 that it is time to abandon the ‘Moscow criterion’.
Read his arguments here.
Sir David Omand, Sir Kevin Tebbit and Mr Franklin Miller responded to Sir Menzies Campbell’s article: ‘UK cannot afford to be complacent‘, Financial Times, 22 May 2012.
Lord (Des) Browne of Ladyton and Dr. Ian Kearns last week published an article entitled “Europe Needs to Shoulder More Responsibility for Addressing Nuclear Dangers” in “Strategic Europe”, a Carnegie Europe Series publication.
The article argues that:
“In the midst of a financial crisis of existential proportions for the euro, nuclear issues have been pushed to the margins of the European political debate. This is understandable, but it cannot be allowed to continue. The world faces potential new nuclear arms races and Europe systematically underestimates both the scale of the problem and the scale of its ability and responsibility to act…..Europe can and must play a central role in addressing the nuclear dangers.”
You can read the full article here .
Des Browne has published an article on the Top Level Group of UK Parliamentarians for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament and Non-proliferation in the Spring 2011 issue of the NEW WORLD, the newsletter of the UNA-UK.
The article highlights the importance of the Top Level Group and its valuable contribution to the UK debate.
You can read the full article on page 24 here .
Following a lecture on the importance of political leadership in achieving a nuclear weapon free world at the David Davies Memorial Institute Annual Lecture, Aberystwyth University on Wednesday 28 April 2010, Des Browne has published an article in the magazine International Relations (December 2010 issue)
The article, written by Des Browne, Shatabhisha Shetty and Andrew Somerville, outlines the key features of political leadership, explains its importance, examines historical instances of leadership and highlights instances of successful political leadership. In this multi-polar world, it is only through multilateral action that we can achieve a world free of nuclear weapons, and this requires proactive multilateral political leadership.
The full article is available as a PDF download here.
Members of the Top Level Group published a letter in the New York Times on 29 November 2010 calling for the US Senate to ratify the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
The Top Level Group members wrote in their letter that “Europe owes much to American leadership, and it is in the nature of the New Start treaty that we must look to American leadership again. But through NATO and at Lisbon, Europe delivered its own view to the United States: If the Senate ratifies New Start, it does so not only with strong United Kingdom support, but also with the support of the entire alliance”.
Further details and a link to the original article can be found here.
TLG member Sir Menzies Campbell MP wrote to the Financial Times on 16 September 2010 stating the need to extend the Trident programme, and calling for a reasoned rational debate in a time of fiscal uncertainty.
Read his arguments here.
On Sunday 4 April 2010, The Guardian published an article by Martin Rees and Des Browne MP entitled, ‘Science’s Nuclear Responsibility.’
The piece addresses the important role scientists have to play in reducing and finally eliminating nuclear weapons. Read the article here.
In October 2009, Lord David Owen published the book Nuclear Papers.
David Owen, Nuclear Papers
The book is an explosive mixture of Owen’s recently declassified papers relating to the UK’s last review of nuclear weapons policy and a forceful polemic on the past, present and future of government nuclear policy.
It is a fascinating insight into the culture of secrecy in the upper echelons of government. Owen’s papers show how ministers, including the Chancellor, were deliberately cut out of discussions.
The book has been published in advance of the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
A longer extract of Lord Owen’s book Nuclear Papers is available as a PDF download here .
Lord Douglas Hurd, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, Lord David Owen and Lord George Robertson published an article entitles ‘Start worrying and learn to ditch the bomb’ in The Times on 30 June 2008.
It the articles they outline that the way to a world free of nuclear weapons is possible, but will not be easy. Click here to read the article.
