Issues

We currently focus on four main issues: disarmament and security, climate change and energy, questions of who controls science and technology and issues surrounding new and emerging technologies. You will also see that we work on some other issues too. You can explore these with the menu on the left of this page and with the search function. Material in this section includes all SGR's main outputs since 2005, with a selection of the more important material from before then.

The MOD Grand Challenge: war games for young engineers?

Phil Chamberlain discovers some disturbing activities on Salisbury Plain.

Article from SGR Newsletter no. 37, spring 2009
 

The low-carbon energy debate

Nick Reeves, Alasdair Beal and Stuart Parkinson outline contrasting positions on the issue of low-carbon energy in the UK. In the first article, Reeves questions whether ministers can be trusted on the environment if they say that nuclear power and coal are a major part of the answer to Britain's energy needs. In the second, Beal questions whether it will be straightforward to avoid building new coal-fired power stations. In the third article, Parkinson discusses some recent UK energy modelling studies which demonstrate the possible low carbon, non-nuclear scenarios.

Three articles from SGR Newsletter no. 37; spring 2009

 

Latest Scientists for Global Responsibility Newsletter (no. 37)

Press release, 11 March 2009
 

Soldiers in the laboratory - the militarisation of the university

Presentation by Dr Chris Langley at a seminar organised by Student Pugwash, Cambridge University, 2 March 2009
 

"Big Bang" Event is really Big BAE, not Science Education

Press Release (with Campaign Against Arms Trade), 25 February 2009
 

Finding an Ethical Career in Science, Design and Technology (Feb 2009)

Slides of a presentation given by Stuart Parkinson, SGR, at Nottingham University, 17 February, 2009

 

Climate change and military conflict

Presentation by Stuart Parkinson, SGR, at the AGM of the Movement for the Abolition of War.

9 November 2008
 

 

A Vision for Science and Society: SGR Response

SGR submission to the UK Government Consultation A Vision for Science and Society, October 2008
 

UK Renewable Energy Strategy: SGR Response

Submission to government consultation on UK Renewable Energy Strategy, September 2008
 

High-alert nuclear weapons: the forgotten danger

Steven Starr, Physicians for Social Responsibility, argues that the continued maintenance of US and Russian nuclear weapons on high alert means that the threat of accidental (or deliberate) global nuclear war has not gone away.

Article from SGR Newsletter, no. 36, autumn 2008