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On 13 July 2026 Pugwash held a one-day workshop on “AI and Nuclear Weapons: Risks and Opportunities” to assess the landscape of how artificial intelligence impacts and interacts with nuclear risks. The…
Read articleOn 12 June 2026 Pugwash and the SCRAP Weapons project (at London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies) organized a multidisciplinary workshop, “Effects of a Nuclear War: Bridging Science, Policy, and…
Read articlePugwash co-organised a side-event, "Effects of Nuclear War and its Consequences", with the Hiroshima Prefecture/ HOPe and Nagasaki Prefecture, co-sponsored by the Missions of Austria and Mexico to the UN. The event…
Read articleOn 5-6 December Pugwash and the Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament (AMC) co-organized a workshop generously hosted by the AMC at Uppsala University.[1] Sixteen participants from four Nordic countries—Sweden, Denmark, Norway…
Read articleFrom 1-5 November 2025, Hiroshima hosts the 63rd Pugwash Conference. We are honoured to be meeting in Hiroshima to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings, as well as the 70th…
Read articleThe Pugwash Chemical and Biological Weapons Working Group (CBW WG) held its first event on 3rd October, drawing more than 75 persons from all continents, including the Middle East and North Africa,…
Read articleFrom 14-16 July 2025, Pugwash leaders joined a distinguished group of Nobel Laureates, scientists and policy experts from across the world for the first Nobel Laureate assembly dedicated to the threat that…
Read articleThe Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs hosted an event together with the Royal Society to mark the 70th anniversary of a declaration signed by Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, and nine…
Read articleIn May 2025, Pugwash held a meeting in collaboration with The Simons Foundation Canada and Canadian Pugwash, which took place in the margins of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty’s Third Preparatory Committee in…
Read articleIn April 2025 the Iraq Pugwash Group organized a conference in Sulaymaniya to commemorate the use of chemical weapons against Kurdish Iraqis in 1988 and to discuss the present efforts to ban…
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