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In November 2017, Pugwash Secretary-General Paolo Cotta-Ramusino participated in the conference Perspectives for a World Free from Nuclear Weapons and for Integral Disarmament held in the Vatican City.
Read articlePugwash sends its warmest congratulations to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) on the announcement that it has been awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, in recognition of their work…
Read articleThe Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons leading to their elimination will be open for signature on September 20, 2017, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. This instrument was adopted…
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Read articleThe Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs wholeheartedly congratulates President Elayne Whyte-Gómez and all participants in the Conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons on the successful…
Read articleOn March 27, 2017, Ambassador Sergio Duarte delivered a statement of behalf of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs at the High Level segment of the United Nations conference that…
Read articleThe Pugwash Conferences for Science & World Affairs and its co-founder Joseph Rotblat were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995 because of, as the citation read, “their efforts to diminish the…
Read articleOn 18 August 2016 Pugwash President Jayantha Dhanapala and Secretary General Paolo Cotta-Ramusino issued a statement on the adoption of a "no first use" policy by nuclear weapons states.
Read articleWhat we expect from the US President’s visit to Hiroshima
Read articleIn December 2015 Pugwash explored our current themes and honored past achievements with a special event, "Addressing Extremism, Regional Instabilities & WMD Risks: A Symposium on the 20th Anniversary of the Awarding…
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