Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
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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.[1]
First Pugwash Conference
The first Pugwash Conference was held July 9, 1955 in London at a Press Conference held in Caxton Hall.[2]