for nuclear disarmament
A new video site to show the weight and breadth of expert opinion
that is behind President Obama’s global nuclear disarmament initiative.
Rt. Hon. Shirley Williams
leading British politician; Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords and Harvard academic
Official UK nuclear historian; Fellow of the Institute of Contemporary British History, the Institute of Physics (London), and the Society for Radiological Protection; co-author of a two-volume history of the British nuclear energy project, and three histories of Britain’s
nuclear weapon programme.
Nuclear physicist; world expert on civil and military nuclear power; former Director, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and Executive Secretary of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs; Emeritus Nuclear Consultant
to the Oxford Research Group.
Former Master General of the Ordnance, Warden of St. George’s House, Windsor Castle, and Director of the Council for Arms Control;
prominent critic of the UK Government’s plans to renew its Trident nuclear weapon system.
Niwano Peace Prize laureate 2003. Founder director of Oxford Research Group and Peace Direct; consultant on The Elders initiative; member of the World Futures Council;
author, British Nuclear Weapons Policy:
Why it has not changed with the end
of the Cold War (1992 doctoral thesis
for the University of Bradford).
Senior Fellow for Non–proliferation and Disarmament at the International Institute
for Strategic Studies (IISS), London;
former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for
Non-Proliferation at the US State Department.
Executive Director, the British-American
Security Information Council (BASIC);
former co-leader (Green Party) of Oxford
City Council, and senior researcher for
Oxford Research Group (ORG).
Tutor in Middle Eastern politics and religion in the Department of Continuing Education at the University of Oxford; Associate of the Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research (TFF); former Editor for Middle East & North Africa at the BBC Monitoring Service; former professor and dean of the Faculty of Languages at the University of Isfahan.
Dr. Rebecca Johnson
Co-founder & Executive Director of the
Acronym Institute for Disarmament
Diplomacy, and Editor of Disarmament Diplomacy; former Vice Chair of the Board
of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists;
and senior advisor to the Hans Blix Weapons
of Mass Destruction Commission.
Leading British peace campaigner; Founder and Chair of the Movement for the Abolition of War; Vice-President, Pax Christi; honorary vice-president, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament; past President of the International Peace Bureau.
leading British environmentalist; Founder and CEO of Solarcentury, SolarAid & New Energies Invest AG; member of the UK Government’s Renewables Advisory Board; former Chief Scientist for Greenpeace International.
retired senior British Army officer; cross bench member of the House of Lords; prominent critic of the UK Government plans to renew
its Trident nuclear weapon system.
Member of Parliament for Kensington and Chelsea; former Secretary of State for Defence from 1992–95, and Foreign Secretary from 1995–97; member of the new cross-party
Top Level Group of UK Parliamentarians
for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament
and Non-Proliferation.
A world authority on international security, arms control and political violence, prolific author and media commentator;
Professor of Peace Studies at the University
of Bradford, Global Security Consultant to
the Oxford Research Group (ORG),
and International Security Editor
for openDemocracy.net
Independent Member of Parliament for Birmingham Ladywood; former Labour
Cabinet Minister, Secretary of State for International Development from 1997 - 2003, when she resigned in protest against
the invasion of Iraq without a
proper UN mandate.
prominent British politician and Harvard academic; adviser to the British Prime Minister on nuclear proliferation issues; former Liberal Democrat Leader of the House of Lords; member of the Australian government’s International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (ICNND).
General Lord Ramsbotham
Senior British army officer and cross-bench member
of the House of Lords
Mark Fitzpatrick
former senior Sate Department official;
International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
Dr. Farhang Jahanpour
British-Iranian academic, University of Oxford
“With old friends and former foes, we will work tirelessly to lessen the nuclear threat,
and roll back the spectre of a warming planet.”
President Barack Obama in his Inaugural Address, January 20th, 2009
Professor Paul Rogers
Professor of Peace Studies, Bradford University, UK
Dr Jeremy Leggett
leading British environmentalist and energy expert;
CEO of SolarCentury
Clare Short, MP
former UK Secretary of State for International Development
Dr. Scilla Elworthy
Winner of the 2003 Niwano Peace Prize
Sir Malcolm Rifkind, MP
former UK Secretary of State for foreign affairs and defence
Films of personal interviews with leading politicians, diplomats, soldiers, global security analysts and other experts speaking from a range of different perspectives about why
they think President Obama’s initiative to rid the world of nuclear weapons
must be supported, and how it may be achieved.
What is www.talkworks.info?
TalkWorks
is an independent, non-commercial film-making and video site project to communicate to the widest possible public the voices of leading international policy makers and influencers who are supporting the US-led initiative towards global nuclear disarmament.
TalkWorks
makes short films for the internet of politicians, diplomats, historians, nuclear scientists, military and global security experts, as well as those whose lives are devoted to building peace, each giving their personal perspectives on the prospects and problems.
The films offer insights from a range of disciplines and different political and national backgrounds. There is common agreement that nuclear proliferation poses at least as great a threat to the world as climate change, and that this must be understood and dealt with as a top priority by world leaders.
TalkWorks
aims to promote a better understanding of a complex issue, and inspire the viewer to back President Obama’s lead, and join in the “global effort” to make the world a safer and saner place by getting rid of nuclear weapons.
