SERIES ONE
Film 1:
Lorna Arnold

Lorna Arnold is the former official historian of the British nuclear power and weapons programmes; she is co-author with the late Professor Margaret Gowing of the two-volume “Independence and Deterrence: Britain and Atomic Energy, 1945-1952”, and has published three histories of Britain’s nuclear weapon programme.  She is a Fellow of the Institute of Contemporary British History, the Institute of Physics (London), and the Society for Radiological Protection; and has this year been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Reading.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorna_Arnoldshapeimage_1_link_0

TalkWorks’ Film SERIES ONE

in chronological order

(Earliest-recorded interview first, the latest last)


Each accompanied by a brief biography and links to published papers and articles.

 
 




Film 2:
Bruce Kent

Bruce Kent is Britain’s most famous peace and anti-war campaigner; a retired priest, Founder and Chair of the Movement for the Abolition of War, Vice-President of Pax Christi; honorary vice-president, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND); and  past President of the International Peace Bureau. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Kenthttp://www.abolishwar.org.uk/http://www.abolishwar.org.uk/http://www.paxchristi.org.uk/index.htmlhttp://www.cnduk.org/http://www.cnduk.org/http://ipb.org/i/index.htmlshapeimage_3_link_0shapeimage_3_link_1shapeimage_3_link_2shapeimage_3_link_3shapeimage_3_link_4shapeimage_3_link_5shapeimage_3_link_6



Film 3:
General Sir Hugh Beach

Hugh Beach is former Master General of the Ordnance, and subsequently Director of the Council for Arms Control, Warden of St. George’s House, Windsor Castle; and Vice-Chairman of the Council on Christian Approaches to Defence and Disarmament (CCADD).http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Beachhttp://www.stgeorges-windsor.org/http://website.lineone.net/~ccadd/http://website.lineone.net/~ccadd/shapeimage_4_link_0shapeimage_4_link_1shapeimage_4_link_2shapeimage_4_link_3



Film 4:
Clare Short, MP

 Clare Short was appointed Secretary of State for International Development in the new 1997 Labour cabinet, she resigned after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and three years later declared that she was ashamed of Tony Blair’s government and resigned the party whip; she now sits as an Independent Member of Parliament for Birmingham Ladywood.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Shortshapeimage_5_link_0



Film 5:
Paul Ingram

Paul Ingram  is Executive Director of the London and Washington-based British-American Security Information Council (BASIC) and leads its Getting To Zero programme.  He was previously project leader on Government Subsidies to the Arms Trade at Oxford Research Group, and is a former Green Party City Councillor for Oxford.http://www.greenparty.org.uk/people/17.htmlhttp://www.basicint.org/http://www.basicint.org/nuclear/index.htmhttp://oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/projects/previous_projects/arms_subsidieshttp://oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/projects/previous_projects/arms_subsidiesshapeimage_6_link_0shapeimage_6_link_1shapeimage_6_link_2shapeimage_6_link_3shapeimage_6_link_4


Film 6:
Mark Fitzpatrick

Mark Fitzpatrick is Senior Fellow for Non-proliferation and Disarmament at the prestigious London-based think-tank, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS); he was formerly Deputy Assistant Secretary for Non-proliferation at the US State Department.
http://www.iiss.org/about-us/staffexpertise/list-experts-by-name/mark-fitzpatrick/http://www.iiss.org/shapeimage_7_link_0shapeimage_7_link_1


Film 8:
General Lord Ramsbotham


David Ramsbotham is a retired senior British Army officer, former Chief Inspector of Prisons for Her Majesty’s Government, and now a highly respected cross-bench Member of the House of Lords.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ramsbothamshapeimage_8_link_0


Film 7:
Dr. Farhang Jahanpour

Farhang Jahanpour is tutor in Middle Eastern Politics and Religion at the Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford; Associate, the Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research (TFF); former Editor for Middle East & North Africa at the BBC Monitoring Service; and former Professor & Dean of the Faculty of Languages at the University of Isfahan.http://www.transnational.org/shapeimage_9_link_0



Film 9:
Dr. Scilla Elworthy

Scilla Elworthy was winner of the Niwano Peace Prize in 2003, equivalent to the Nobel Peace Prize; she is founder of the Oxford Research Group (ORG) and of Peace Direct; Associate of the Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research (TFF); Adviser to The Elders initiative; Member of the World Future Council and of the International Task Force on Preventive Diplomacy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scilla_Elworthyhttp://www.npf.or.jp/english/peace_prize_.htmlhttp://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/http://www.peacedirect.org/http://www.transnational.org/http://www.transnational.org/http://www.theelders.org/http://www.worldfuturecouncil.org/http://www.ewipreventivediplomacy.org/home.phphttp://www.ewipreventivediplomacy.org/home.phpshapeimage_10_link_0shapeimage_10_link_1shapeimage_10_link_2shapeimage_10_link_3shapeimage_10_link_4shapeimage_10_link_5shapeimage_10_link_6shapeimage_10_link_7shapeimage_10_link_8shapeimage_10_link_9



Film 11:
Rt. Hon Shirley Williams

Shirley Williams advises Gordon Brown on nuclear proliferation issues; former Leader of the Liberal Democrat Party in the House of Lords; Professor Emeritus of Elective Politics at the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; and Member of  the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (ICNND) convened by the Australian and Japanese governments in October 2008.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Williamshttp://www.icnnd.org/index.htmlshapeimage_11_link_0shapeimage_11_link_1



Film 10:
Dr. Jeremy Leggett

Jeremy Leggett is a leading British environmentalist.  He is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Solarcentury, SolarAid and New Energies Invest AG; he is a member of the UK Government’s Renewables Advisory Board; he was formerly Chief Scientist for Greenpeace International, and Director of the Verification & Technology Information Council (VERTIC).http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Leggettshapeimage_12_link_0



Film 13: 
Dr. Rebecca Johnson

Rebecca Johnson is a world expert on non-proliferation and disarmament negotiations within the United Nations; 
Co-founder & Executive Director of the Acronym Institute for 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, 2004 - 2006.http://www.acronym.org.uk/biogrej.htmhttp://www.acronym.org.uk/index.htmhttp://www.thebulletin.org/http://www.wmdcommission.org/shapeimage_13_link_0shapeimage_13_link_1shapeimage_13_link_2shapeimage_13_link_3

Read more by Farhang Jahanpour:

‘What Future for Nuclear Weapons?’

Lecture given to an

Oxford Peace Research Trust meeting in Oxford UK

on 24th February 2009

Iran’s Nuclear Programme and Regional Security

both published on the TFF website

(Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research)

Read more about

and by

Jeremy Leggett

on his Blog

Read more about

David Ramsbotham’s views on nuclear deterrence and Trident:

‘’UK does not need a nuclear deterrent’ 

Letter to The Times, 16 January 2009


Let’s go nuclear and ditch our weapons

Comment by Joan McAlpine in The Times, 3 May 2009

Read more by Hugh Beach

on this question:

‘’UK does not need a nuclear deterrent

Letter to The Times, 16 January 2009


‘’Trident: White Elephant or Black Hole?’ 

in RUSI Journal, February 2009

Royal United Services Institute

For recent articles by  
Scilla Elworthy see, for example: 
Associates 
on the website of the:
Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research (TFF)http://www.transnational.org/SAJT/tff/people/s_elworthy.htmlhttp://www.transnational.org/http://www.transnational.org/shapeimage_14_link_0shapeimage_14_link_1shapeimage_14_link_2

Read more by Paul Ingram

on the BASIC website:

‘Getting To Zero’ papers


and on the

‘Getting To Zero’ Blog

Read more by Mark Fitzpatrick

on the

IISS website

Iran’s Nuclear Program and its

Impact on the Region

Prepared testimony by Mark Fitzpatrick before a Hearing of the Senate Committee

on Foreign Relations

Read more about Clare Short, and for articles, speeches and interviews,

see her parliamentary

website

Read the House of Lords debate

called by Shirley Williams on this issue on

26 March 2009:

“To call attention to the potential for nuclear proliferation and the Government’s plans to respond to it”

Hansard



Films 12,13. 14: 
Dr. Frank Barnaby

Dr. Frank Barnaby is a world expert on civil and military nuclear technology, and a prolific author on nuclear and security issues. Former Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and former Executive Secretary of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, he is Emeritus Nuclear Consultant to the Oxford Research Group (ORG). A nuclear physicist by training, who worked at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Aldermaston in the 1950s, he is one of the few people who have witnessed an atomic explosion.


Part 1  The proliferation and security consequences of a civil nuclear power renaissance                
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Barnabyshapeimage_26_link_0
The World in Our Hands
 
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Read more by Frank Barnaby:
‘The Nuclear Renaissance: Nuclear weapons proliferation and terrorism’,  
IPPR report, March 2009. 

‘Secure Energy? Civil Nuclear Power, Security & Global Warming’
ORG Report, with a foreword by Jürgen Trittin, March 2007

‘Would Air Strikes Work? Understanding Iran's Nuclear Programme and the Possible Consequences of a Military Strike’ 
ORG Report, with a foreword by Hans Blix, March 2007

‘Can President Barack Obama Save the Non-Proliferation Treaty?’ 
‘How many countries will get the bomb?’, March 2009http://www.ippr.org.uk/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=650http://www.ippr.org.uk/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=650http://www.ippr.org.uk/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=650http://www.ippr.org.uk/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=650http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/publications/briefing_papers/secureenergy.phphttp://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/publications/briefing_papers/secureenergy.phphttp://oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/publications/briefing_papers/would_air_strikes_work_understanding_irans_nuclear_programme_and_possibhttp://oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/publications/briefing_papers/would_air_strikes_work_understanding_irans_nuclear_programme_and_possibhttp://oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/publications/briefing_papers/would_air_strikes_work_understanding_irans_nuclear_programme_and_possibhttp://oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/publications/briefing_papers/would_air_strikes_work_understanding_irans_nuclear_programme_and_possibhttp://scitizen.com/stories/Future-Energies/2009/03/Can-President-Barack-Obama-Save-the-Non-Proliferation-Treaty/http://scitizen.com/stories/Future-Energies/2009/03/Can-President-Barack-Obama-Save-the-Non-Proliferation-Treaty/http://scitizen.com/stories/Future-Energies/2009/03/Can-President-Barack-Obama-Save-the-Non-Proliferation-Treaty/http://scitizen.com/stories/Future-Energies/2009/03/How-many-countries-will-get-the-bomb/http://scitizen.com/stories/Future-Energies/2009/03/How-many-countries-will-get-the-bomb/shapeimage_33_link_0shapeimage_33_link_1shapeimage_33_link_2shapeimage_33_link_3shapeimage_33_link_4shapeimage_33_link_5shapeimage_33_link_6shapeimage_33_link_7shapeimage_33_link_8shapeimage_33_link_9shapeimage_33_link_10shapeimage_33_link_11shapeimage_33_link_12shapeimage_33_link_13shapeimage_33_link_14