18 March 2014/ Pugwash community

Japan presentations on Pugwash history

Between 12-17 March 2014, Pugwash Executive Director Sandra Ionno Butcher was hosted by Japan Pugwash for a number of presentations and participation in events commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Castle Bravo nuclear test, which doused the Lucky Dragon fishing boat and led to renewed concerns over atmospheric nuclear testing. These events are directly intertwined with the origins of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto.

Peace cranes at the Nagasaki Museum and National Memorial Hall

The trip also included planning discussions for the upcoming 61st Pugwash Conference, scheduled to take place in Nagasaki in 2015.

Butcher’s presentation 16 March 014, International Peace Research Institute, Meiji GakuinUniversity.

Revisiting the Russell-Einstein Manifesto (PDF of Powerpoint)

Revisiting the Russell-Einstein Manifesto (Word version)

Butcher’s presentation 14 March 2014, Research Center for Nuclear Abolition, Nagasaki University

Putting Humanity First: NGOs, Young People and Disarmament (PDF of Powerpoint)

Video link to 1 March 1954 Castle Bravo explosion, with sound

Masanobu Chita, Director of Nagasakai National Peace Museum and Memorial Hall

Taka Takahara and Sandra Butcher, by the Russell-Einstein Manifesto Exhibit, Lucky Dragon Museum, Tokyo

Japanese Pugwash visit with President of Nagasaki University Shigeru Katamine. Left to right: Susumu Shirabe, Tatsu Suzuki, Sandy Butcher, Shigeru Katamine, Hiromichi Umebayashi

Discussion about Pugwash history with former Council Member Michiji Konuma and Tatsu Suzuki

Former Pugwash Council member Michiji Konuma and Tatsu Suzuki

Butcher and Konuma

Butcher with students at Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University

Director of Lucky Dragon Museum leads a private tour for Jun Kyu Lee, Lawrence Wittner, Taka Takahara, and S Butcher (not pictured)

Local Nagasaki paper covers plans to hold 61st Pugwash Conference in Nagasaki, November 2015

Pugwashites Shoji Sawada and Michiji Konuma (center) at the seminar at 16 March 2014, International Peace Research Institute, Meiji Gakuin University, organized by then-Pugwash Council member Taka Takahara

Seminar 16 March 2014, International Peace Research Institute, Meiji Gakuin University, organized by Taka Takahara

From Michiji Konuma’s private archives: Letter from Yukawa to Russell regarding Einstein’s death

Plans to hold the 61st Pugwash Conference in Nagasaki in November 2015 received coverage in the Nagasaki press

Pugwash History Russell-Einstein Manifesto