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Every 18-24 months Pugwash organizes large conferences with both plenary meetings and separate working groups. These conferences comprise up to 300 individuals gathered together to work on a range of issues. The first Pugwash International Conference was held in Pugwash, Nova Scotia in 1957.

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Pugwash Council statement following Hiroshima Conference

The image accompanying this post is created by the artist Wakana Yamauchi, one of several original artworks produced for the … More

Statements

Hiroshima Declaration 2025

Issued by the Pugwash Council, 5 November 2025 Eighty years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, humanity once … More

Pugwash Council, Statements

63rd Pugwash Conference in Hiroshima, “80 Years After the Atomic Bombing – Time for Peace, Dialogue and Nuclear Disarmament”

From 1-5 November 2025, Hiroshima hosts the 63rd Pugwash Conference. We are honoured to be meeting in Hiroshima to commemorate … More

Protected: Participant information: 63rd Pugwash Conference, Hiroshima

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Doha announced as host of 63rd Pugwash Conference

Pugwash is pleased to announce that the 63rd Pugwash International Conference will take place from 1-5 March 2020 kindly hosted … More

Pugwash announces new President

The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs is proud to announce that Sergio Duarte, former UN Undersecretary for Disarmament … More

Video: “Conference Closing”, 62nd Pugwash Conference

Conference Closing Saideh Lotfian (Iran), Chair of the Pugwash Council Sergio Duarte (Brazil), Pugwash President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (Kazakhstan), Chairman of … More

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Video: “Future of civilian nuclear energy”, 62nd Pugwash Conference

Future of civilian nuclear energy 1m45s Sharon Squassoni (USA), Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies 14m10s Tatsujiro Suzuki … More

Videos

Video: “The Iranian Nuclear Deal”, 62nd Pugwash Conference

The Iranian Nuclear Deal and its Consequences 2m0s Sergey Ryabkov (Russia), Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation 18m0s Nasser … More

Iran nuclear issue, Videos

Video: “Reducing Global Nuclear Dangers”, 62nd Pugwash Conference

Dorothy Hodgkin Discussion on Reducing Global Nuclear Dangers Sam Nunn (USA), Co-chair of the Nuclear Threat Initiative Ernest Moniz (USA), … More

Videos

Video: “Security Challenges in Central Asia”, 62nd Pugwash Conference

Security Challenges in Central Asia and their Solutions 4m20s Yerzhan Saltybayev (Kazakhstan), Director, Institute of World Economics and Politics 18m30s … More

Videos

Video: “Report of the Secretary General”, 62nd Pugwash Conference

Report of the Secretary General 2m Paolo Cotta-Ramusino (Italy), Secretary General of Pugwash Chair: Saideh Lotfian (Iran), Chair of the … More

Video: “Nuclear and WMD-Free Zones in the Middle East”, 62nd Pugwash Conference

Nuclear and WMD-Free Zones in the Middle East 10m30s Nasser Hadian (Iran), Professor of political science at the University of … More

Videos, WMDFZ

62nd Pugwash Conference, Astana

Sixty years after convening its first meeting, Pugwash held its 62nd conference in Astana, Kazakhstan on August 25-29.   Confronting … More

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