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Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
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Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs: see Rotblat, Sir Joseph Rotblat, Sir Joseph, 1908–2005, British physicist and anti-nuclear weapons activist, b. Warsaw, Poland; grad. Free Univ. of Poland (M.A., 1932), Univ. of Warsaw (Ph.D., 1938), Univ. of Liverpool (Ph.D., 1950).
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When political and funding problems arose, however, the idea of meeting in New Delhi had to be scrapped and Eaton's proposal was accepted, with Rotblat organizing the first Pugwash conference.
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.
The Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs (named for the place in Canada where the group first met in the 1950s) is the oldest and most prestigious group of scientists trying to develop ways of controlling militarism; it has made notable contributions to each of the more limited arms control agreements that have been achieved so far.
 
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