Hugh Beach

General Sir Hugh Beach, GBE, KCB, MC, is a former Deputy Commander-in-Chief for the UK Land Forces and Master-General of the Ordnance. In retirement he researches and advises on defence policy, arms control and disarmament, with an active interest in promoting concerns about ethical issues of peace and war. He serves as a Board Member on various NGOs, including the Verification, Research and Training Information Centre (VERTIC), the Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy, and the Council for Christian Approaches on Defence and Disarmament (CCADD).

The case for one-sided nuclear disarmament

Fear of the ‘unilateralist’ label obscures the fact that there is now an overwhelming case to be made that the complete renunciation of nuclear weapons is in the British national interest.

By Hugh Beach

/ 12 Jun 2013

Trying to think clearly

It is 12 January 2003 and US president Bush has rallied his troops for what he calls “The first war of the 21st century”. What is your view of this crisis, where, briefly, do you stand? This is the question we are putting to people around the world, especially those with their own public reputatio

By Hugh Beach

/ 12 Jan 2003