With Peter Kuznick, Professor of History and Founder/Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University; and John Burroughs, Senior Analyst and the former Executive Director of the New York-based Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy (LCNP) and Director of the United Nations Office of the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA). Chaired by CND General Secretary Kate Hudson.
UK attachements to nuclear power – a military romance?
Join CND for a discussion with Professor Andy Stirling and Dr Phil Johnstone, in conversation with CND Chair Dave Webb, about the connections between the UK’s nuclear weapons programme and nuclear power. Hosted by CND General Secretary Kate Hudson.
Andy Stirling is a Professor of Science and Technology Policy at the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex, and has served as an adviser to the EC, UK and other governments across a range of issues in the politics of science, technology and innovation.
Dr Phil Johnstone is a Research Fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit, (SPRU), University of Sussex. A member of the Sussex Energy Group since 2013, Phil has researched and published on a number of topics related to energy transformations, and has a long-standing interest in nuclear power policy.
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Killer Robots and the Automation of War
Fully autonomous weapons decide who lives and dies without human intervention, crossing a new moral threshold of barbarism in war.
Machines lack human characteristics such as compassion that are necessary to make complex ethical choices. It would be a grave mistake to hand machines the power to make decisions about who, what and when to kill.
A number of countries including the UK are developing weapons systems with significant autonomy in the critical functions of selecting and attacking targets. If left unchecked the world could enter a destabilizing robotic arms race.
Join Peter Burt and Verity Coyle from the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots to discuss the latest developments and the campaign against this new type of weapon on Saturday 30 May at 2pm.
The discussion will be hosted by Kate Hudson, general secretary of CND, and Ian Chamberlain, CND’s outgoing press and communications officer.
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