30 January 2021 In early 2021 there is every reason to say that the global arms control and disarmament process,…
Pugwash Note on the Entry into Force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
22 January 2021 The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) enters into force today, 90 days after the deposit…
Pugwash Note on Northeast Asia Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
January 2021 Breaking a Deadlock to Denuclearization of the Korean PeninsulaNortheast Asia Nuclear Weapon Free Zone (NEA-NWFZ) as the end…
Pugwash Note on the Iran Nuclear Agreement and Middle Eastern Security
December 2020 This is a very short note addressing the issue of the Iran nuclear agreement and pointing out some…
Pugwash document on cyber security and warfare
November 2020 The document below is the result of several discussions inside Pugwash, including three specific workshops in 2018 (Geneva), 2019…
75 years after
6 August 2020 The nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years ago on 6 and 9 August—where over 170,000…
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
30 November 2020 The terrorist attack in Iran that killed the physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh had the main effect of increasing tensions…
Pugwash Note on The Deposit of the 50th Instrument of Ratification of the Treaty on The Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)
25 October 2020 Pugwash notes with deep appreciation the deposit of the fiftieth instrument of ratification of the Treaty on…
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 Delegation in Vienna for arms control meetings
On 21-23 June 2020, Pugwash Secretary-General Paolo Cotta Ramusino and Pugwash Council Member Sergey Batsanov visited Vienna and had meetings…
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…
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…
