Here you can read reports from a conference on nuclear policy and proliferation organised in London on January 8 2003 by the Guardian, the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies and the US Physicians for Social Responsibility.

World on path to disaster, bomb pioneer warns
January 9: Defence analysts at Guardian non-proliferation conference see increased risk of atomic war.

US strategy 'risks dangerous new arms race'
January 9: Double standards on Iraq and Korea set back disarmament cause.

Nato directionless on nuclear policy
January 9: The US, Europe and their Nato alliance are floundering in their nuclear policy, apparently willing to use nuclear weapons against a non-nuclear assault and relying on a magic umbrella of missile defence to defend themselves.

Bush 'drags down the strike threshold'
January 9: The international taboo on the use of nuclear weapons is being weakened by America's development of new tactical devices, its active targeting of so-called rogue states and its preparations to resume testing, monitoring groups said.

'We are on a slippery slope, heading for disaster'
The development of a polarised world has created nuclear dangers which must be prevented, argues Joseph Rotblat.

Europe is the key
The EU should spearhead the drive for world peace, argues Dan Plesch.

British and Nato policy after the Prague summit
Nuclear policy has been shaped by the new US defence strategy post-September 11 and by Washington's concerns about Iraq, says Timothy Garden.