Robert Green

Robert Green served for twenty years in the British Royal Navy from 1962-82. As a bombardier-navigator, he flew in Buccaneer nuclear strike aircraft with a target in Russia and then anti-submarine helicopters equipped with nuclear depth-bombs. On promotion to Commander in 1978, he worked in the Ministry of Defence before his final appointment as Staff Officer (Intelligence) to the Commander-in-Chief Fleet during the 1982 Falklands War.

Commander Green chaired the UK affiliate of the World Court Project (1991-2004), an international citizen campaign which led to the International Court of Justice judgment in 1996 that the threat or use of nuclear weapons would generally be illegal. From 1998-2002 he was Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee of the Middle Powers Initiative.

Having emigrated to New Zealand in 1999, he is the author of The Naked Nuclear Emperor: Debunking Nuclear Deterrence, and Fast Track to Zero Nuclear Weapons: The Middle Powers Initiative. A new edition of his 2010 book, Security without Nuclear Deterrence, was published in 2018 by Spokesman Books, with a major new Foreword by Vice Admiral Sir Jeremy Blackham KCB MA.

The new nuclear deterrence and disarmament crisis

In Part One, we looked at the violation of the fundamental principles of Mutually Assured Destruction. In Part Two, we discuss a new world role for Britain.

By Robert Green

/ 8 Apr 2019

The new nuclear deterrence and disarmament crisis

We are violating the fundamental principles of Mutual Assured Destruction – and there seems to be a lack of awareness, let alone alarm, about this in mainstream western commentaries.

By Robert Green

/ 3 Apr 2019

A nuclear-free world: in reply to Achilles Skordas

In responding to A right to use nuclear weapons? by Achilles Skordas I should declare my interest. During twenty years in Britains Royal Navy, I navigated nuclear-armed strike jets

By Robert Green

/ 20 Mar 2003