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'''Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs''' has been a series of conferences since 1955. It is an international organization that brings together scholars and public figures and was officially founded in 1957 by [[Joseph Rotblat]] and [[Bertrand Russell]] in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada. Its founding followed the release of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto in 1955.<ref>[http://www.pugwash.org/about.htm About]</ref>

==First Pugwash Conference==

The first Pugwash Conference was held July 9, 1955 in London at a Press Conference held in Caxton Hall.<ref>[http://www.pugwash.org/about/conference.htm First Pugwash Conference]</ref>

==Personnel==
===1988 Council===
The Pugwash Council in 1988, consisted of:<ref>[http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=vgYAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA48&lpg=PA48&dq=Bulletin+of+the+Atomic+Scientists+Nov+1988&source=bl&ots=d35O-FSeiW&sig=EqCSaneuOgrtCflv_kM-jVhdksU&hl=en&ei=LFSZS5rCKIuoswPGyazCAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=&f=false Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Nov 1988, page 11]</ref>
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*[[Maciej Nalecz]] - Chairman, Poland
*[[Angel T. Balevska]], Bulgaria
*[[Denes Berenyi]], Hungary
*[[Francesco Calogero]], Italy
*[[Ubiritan D'Ambrosio]], Brazil
*[[Hans-Peter Durr]], West Germany
*[[Bernard Feld]], United States
*[[Shalheveth Freier]], Israel
*[[Essam E. Galal]], Egypt
*[[Virginia Gamba-Stonehouse]], Argentina
*[[Vitali I. Goldanski]], Soviet Union
*[[Lameck K. H. Goma]], Zambia
*[[Anatoly Gromyko]], Soviet Union
*[[Andrew Haines]], United Kingdom
*[[Frank von Hippel]], United States
*[[John Holdren]], United States
*[[George Ignatieff]], Canada
*[[Sergei Kapitza]], Soviet Union
*[[Karlheinz Lohs]], East Germany
*[[Peter Mark]], Austria
*[[Samuel E. Okoye]], Nigeria
*[[Joseph Rotblat]], United Kingdom
*[[Jack Ruina]], United States
*[[Philip B. Smith]], Netherlands
*[[Bhalchandra M. Udgaonkar]], India
*[[Miguel S. Wionczek]], Mexico
*[[Zhou Peiyuan]], China
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==External links==

*[http://www.pugwash.org Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs website]

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