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BASIC is the only peace and security non-governmental organization that is British-American in composition and focus. With programs that address diplomacy and decision-making around nuclear weapons, we work on both sides of the Atlantic to encourage sustainable transatlantic security policies and to develop the strategies that can achieve them. We have charitable status in the United Kingdom and in the United States. We operate with offices in London and Washington, a small but committed sta ...
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US Condemns Iran Missile - 'Storm in a tea cup. The Deal is signed' - Paul Ingram
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BASIC's Executive Director Paul Ingram was interviewed about the relations between the United States and the Gulf Cooperation Council in light of the Iran deal.
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A Memo to the Next Prime Minister on the Nuclear Question: Options Regarding the Replacement of Trident
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BASIC hosted this event on Wednesday 4th March in the Attlee Suite in Portcullis House in London. Chair: The Rt Hon Dame Margaret Beckett MP, Chair of the (Joint) National Security Strategy Committee Speakers: Sir Nick Harvey, Liberal Democrat spokesperson on defence Lord Robertson, former Defence Secretary and Secretary-General of NATO Crispin Blu…
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This podcast is a radio interview given by Paul Ingram (Executive Director of BASIC) to BBC Radio Scotland. The interview concerns the recent launch of the concluding report of the Trident Commission which found that the UK should keep a nuclear deterrent but that multilateral reductions and disarmament are possible and desirable.…
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BASIC Strategic Dialogue on nuclear weapons: Cost and benefits to US strategic interests from UK renewal of Trident
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Paul Ingram and Peter Huessy shared strategic perceptions on Trident in the United Kingdom and the United States, and discussed what possible changes could mean for alliance security. The debates around replacement of the UK nuclear weapons submarines have been heating up in the United Kingdom, and with the historical cooperation between the two al…
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Interview with Ward Wilson by Utah Public Radio on October 17 2013. Ward discusses five myths of nuclear weapons: that nuclear weapons shock and awe opponents; that nuclear deterrence is effective in a crisis; that killing civilians causes leaders to back down; that the bomb has kept the peace for sixty-five years; and that we can’t put the nuclear…
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Strengthening Nonproliferation: Game Changing Ideas
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UN Side Event on October 16, 2013. Presentations by Ward Wilson (BASIC), and Barry Blechman (Stimson Center). Moderated by Angela Kane (UN High Representative on Disarmament Affairs).
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BASIC Strategic Dialogue: European Perspectives on Nuclear Burden Sharing
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Dr. Oliver Meier, Associate in the International Security Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs; and François Rivasseau, Minister Plenipotentiary and Deputy Head of the EU Delegation to the US discuss European perspectives on nuclear burden sharing. The dialogue is moderated by Rebecca Cousins, Program Director at …
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