Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs are a series of conferences in Pugwash , Nova Scotia , Canada .
In 1957 , inspired by the Russell Einstein Manifesto (1955), Cyrus S. Eaton organized and funded the first Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs . Since then, influential international scientists have come together there for meetings and workshops to contribute to questions of the nuclear threat, armed conflict and problems of global security. In addition to annual conferences, the organization Pugwash International now holds workshops on topics such as nuclear disarmament, biological and chemical weapons, regional conflicts, the spread of weapons technologies and the responsibility of natural scientists.
In 1995, fifty years after the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki , Józef Rotblat was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the Pugwash Conferences , which played a decisive role in the 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty . The Pugwash movement had already been awarded the Antonio Feltrinelli Prize in 1987 .
literature
- Klaus Gottstein : Memories of Pugwash and the role of the VDW as a German Pugwash group . In: Götz Neuneck and Michael Schaaf (eds.): On the history of the Pugwash movement in Germany . Max Planck Institute for the History of Science , 2007, p. 39–62 ( pdf [accessed March 10, 2010]).
- Alison Kraft and Carola Sachse (Eds.): Science, (Anti-) Communism and Diplomacy. The Pugwash Conferneces on Science and World Affairs in the Early Cold War. Brill, Leiden and Boston 2019, ISBN 978-90-04-34015-2 .
Web links
- Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
- pugwash.de Pugwash Group Germany
- Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 1995 award ceremony at Pugwash Conferences