Rebecca Cousins is Program Director for BASIC in Washington D.C., before which she was a career diplomat with the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office. She was recently awarded an MBE for her role in the UK's consular in-country response to the 2011 Japan earthquake and subsequent Fukushima nuclear incident.
Rebecca's column on openSecurity explores perspectives on nuclear weapons policy and disarmament.
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Published in: openSecurityThe Scottish referendum: a chance to challenge our nuclear assumptions?The removal of nuclear weapons from Scottish soil may be a “red-line” issue for the SNP today, but as the complexity...
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Published in: openSecurityResisting our cold war instinctsRecent events in Ukraine have led some to question if it might have benefited from a nuclear deterrent. Rather than...
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Published in: openSecurityNuclear disarmament: the case for engagement, not division
While understanding the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons are key to acheiving disarmament, efforts for a...
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Published in: openSecurityRethinking nuclear catastrophe
The increasing discussion of the humanitarian impacts of nuclear weapons may be able to move disarmament talks...
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Published in: openSecurityIran: making the deal work
Only strengthened diplomatic efforts, treating all partners as equal, can defuse the deep mistrust threatening the...
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Published in: openSecurityNuclear disarmament ambitions in 2014
It's easy not to recognise the real, if slow, progress that has been made on nuclear disarmement. There will be big...