On 21-23 June 2020, Pugwash Secretary-General Paolo Cotta Ramusino and Pugwash Council Member Sergey Batsanov visited Vienna and had meetings…
65 years after the Russell-Einstein Manifesto: where are we now?
On July 9, 1955, two of the most eminent intellectuals of the 20th century, Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein, issued…
Pugwash document on the NPT Review Conference Postponement and Risks after the Pandemic
6 May 2020 This is a Pugwash document concerning nuclear problems and tensions in the time of COVID-19. This document…
Tehran meeting on JCPOA
On 23-24 June 2019 a delegation from Pugwash travelled to Iran to participate in a specially-arranged two-day meeting organized together…
Iranian physicist killed in a terrorist attack
The terrorist attack in Iran that killed the physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh had the main effect of increasing tensions and even the…
Remembering Academician Vladimir Fortov (1946-2020)
The Russian Pugwash Committee under the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) deeply mourns the death of the…
Pugwash document on cyber security and warfare
The document below is the result of several discussions inside Pugwash, including three specific workshops in 2018 (Geneva), 2019 (Bariloche) and…
Pugwash Note on The Deposit of the 50th Instrument of Ratification of the Treaty on The Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)
Pugwash notes with deep appreciation the deposit of the fiftieth instrument of ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of…
75 years after
The nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years ago on 6 and 9 August—where over 170,000 people died—highlighted the…
Former German disarmament diplomats call for increased efforts to reduce nuclear dangers
Berlin, 5 August 2020. Tomorrow is the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The…
Pugwash condolences on the passing of Bruce Blair
The Pugwash community is deeply saddened to hear of the sudden passing of Bruce Blair, a tireless and effective advocate…
Statement on the Open Skies Treaty
24 May 2020 After the Open Skies Treaty, What Fate for New START? A Treaty on Open Skies was initially…
Geneva Workshop on Hypersonic Weapons
On 9-10 December 2019, the Pugwash Conferences held a workshop in Geneva on hypersonic weapons. The meeting, organized by the…
Pugwash President interviewed about the NPT Review Conference
On 6 March 2020 the leading Brazilian daily Folha de São Paulo published a front-page article [in Portuguese] based on…
Geneva workshop on Cyber Security and Warfare
On 30-31 January 2020, Pugwash held its second workshop on the theme of cyber security and warfare at the Palais…
