The real cost behind Trident Replacement and the Carriers, by Professor Paul Dunne, Dr Samuel Perlo-Freeman and Paul Ingram, 7 October 2007. This report outlines the annual opportunity cost of Trident Replacement and the Carriers to be £5bn, or 40% of the defence equipment budget, every year for the lifetime of the vessels, a cost unjustifiable at a time of tightening public budgets.

Iran Update, No. 118. Iran to answer IAEA's questions re: intelligence allegations. P5 + Germany meet in London. Iran proposal on ending nuclear deadlock. Inside Natanz nuclear plant. NATO and E.U. criticized. Iranians vote in parliamentary elections. 7 May 2008.

Changing the Frame of the International Debate over Iran's Nuclear Programme: Iran's Role in Moving Towards a Nuclear Weapon Free World and Other solutions to Iran's Energy Insecurity, BASIC Papers delivered by Paul Ingram to an international conference on Iran's nuclear programme in Tehran, 9 March 2008.

A World Without Nuclear Weapons, by Ambassador Robert Barry, comment in The Guardian, 22 January 2008. Also see NATO First-Strike Doctrine Exploded, by Ian Davis, letter in The Guardian, 23 January 2008.

Getting to Zero Update, latest from the Hoover initiative on Getting to Zero, along with news on nuclear non-proliferation and missile defence, 30 April 2008.

Afghanistan Update, a summary of news and analysis, 25 April 2008.

NATO and the Afghan Insurgency: Looking Ahead to Bucharest (PDF), by Andrew Imbrie, BASIC Paper, 25 March 2008.

A World Without Nuclear Weapons: The International Dimension, BASIC event co-sponsored with the United States Institute of Peace and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC on 6 March 2008. Follow this link to USIP for a summary and audio recording of the event.