RAdm John Gower CB OBE Poster Competition Award
Rear Admiral John Gower, CB OBE, dedicated his 36-year military career to supporting the currently necessary existence of strategic nuclear deterrence capabilities while advocating for a diminished reliance on nuclear weapons and pursuing the UK’s disarmament obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty. As Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Nuclear & Chemical, Biological), he led efforts to counter Syria’s chemical weapons programme, engaged in several international dialogues and initiatives to reduce nuclear risk, and served almost half of his career at sea, eventually commanding two globally deployed submarines. To honour his impactful contributions, we are proud to name the first prize of this year’s poster competition after him.
Prizes will be announced for the first, second and third winners of the UK PONI Annual Conference poster competition at the close of the conference
Chair: Lukasz Kulesa, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy and UK PONI Director, RUSI
Poster Competition Participants
'Deep Geological Repositories for Radioactive Waste: a £53 Bn “Nuclear Waste Dump” or a “Critical National Mission”?'
Joshua Griffiths, Geoscience Technical Lead and Disposal Core Science Theme Lead, NNL
'Space-Based Nuclear Weapons, Threat or Fantasy?'
Abrar Ahmad, Graduate Scientist, AWE
'Building Trust in a Suspicious World: How Can the Next Generation of Nuclear Treaties Be Facilitated?'
Olivia Manning, Evolve Graduate Trainee, AWE
'Will AI Lead to Nuclear Disarmament?'
Veerle Moyson, Individual Contractor, Project and Research Coordination, UNODA Vienna Office
'Nuclear Power on the Go: the Key to Strategic Flexibility'
Joseph Lee, Systems Engineer, Rolls-Royce
'Why the United Kingdom Should Host a Summit with the World's Three Major Nuclear Powers'
Alfirraz Bin Iskhandar Shah Scheers, MA Student, King's College London
'The Race for Nuclear Fusion Supremacy - A Cold War in Disguise?'
Wayne Lack, Theoretical Physicist, AWE
'Approaches to Nuclear Arms Control Post-2022: Towards Dual Track 2.0?'
Camille Larsen, Institute for Arms Control and Disarmament
'Can Space Debris Affect SLBM Accuracy?'
Eric Davis, Engineer, Civil Service