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Pugwash Conferences

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Pugwash Conferences

Series of international meetings of eminent scientists to discuss problems of nuclear weapons and world security. The first meeting was held in 1957 at the estate of Cyrus Eaton in Pugwash, Nova Scotia. The Pugwash organization was established to convene subsequent conferences to discuss arms control and disarmament; these were held in the Soviet Union, Britain, India, and the U.S., among other countries. The organization and its president and founding member, Joseph Rotblat (born 1908), received the 1995 Nobel Prize for Peace.



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Following the release of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, Joseph Rotblat, today the document's last living signer, took the lead in forming the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, launched two years later.
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Pugwash Conferences in 1959 and 1960 played a significant role in shaping the Freedom From War blueprint for "general and complete disarmament" unveiled in a 1961 address to the United Nations by John F.
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defense programs, including the Global Security Institute (founded by Communist Mikhail Gorbachev and Alan Cranston), the Pugwash Conferences, School of the Americas Watch, Greenpeace, Physicians for Social Responsibility, the Middle Powers Initiative, Council for a Liveable World, Abolition 2000, and the Lawyers Committee for Nuclear Policy.
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