Russian Pugwash Committee blog on the Russian International Affairs Council official site

On June 28, 2019, a Joint meeting of the Russian Pugwash Committee and the Pugwash Committee of Kazakhstan was held in the Main (new) building of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. The meeting was chaired by the Deputy Chairman…

On 23-24 June 2019 a delegation from Pugwash travelled to Iran to participate in a specially-arranged two-day meeting organized together with the Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS) in Tehran. The central focus of the discussions was…

Crumbling Security Landscape Ahead of the 2020 Review ConferenceViewpoint by Sergio DuarteAmbassador Sergio Duarte is President of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, and a former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs. He was…

The Istituto Affari Internazionali, on behalf of the EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium, is organising a 'Next Generation Workshop' open to 12 young researchers and professionals working in the Arms Control, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament…

John Brenner, a member of British Pugwash, has prepared the below review of last year’s Sir Joseph Rotblat Memorial Lecture:  On 21st November, British Pugwash was co-organisator with the Polish Embassy, the Sir Joseph Rotblat Memorial Lecture. The guest…

On 3 and 4 March 2019 a small team from Pugwash held a number of consultations and meetings in Ramallah and Jerusalem on the situation in Palestine. The impetus was to better understand the challenges of day-to-day life for Palestinians living in the…

Student / Young Pugwash UK held its fourth Annual Conference in February 2019, titled ‘Pugwash Peace & Disarmament Conference‘. It explored the prospects for arms control and disarmament over the coming years, with focuses on nuclear weapons and…

 • The tensions between the people of the Kashmiri valley and the Indian armed forces have been growing for quite some time. Violent struggles and repression have been for too long a matter of daily life.• The resentment among Kashmiris and their…

On 19-20 December 2018 Pugwash held a workshop in Geneva, co-sponsored and hosted by the Geneva Center for Security Policy (GCSP), on the topic of cyber security and warfare. The meeting gathered together 20 experts and practitioners for a broad set of…

We would like to draw your attention to a new book, The 2017 Nuclear Ban Treaty, on the recently negotiated UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). This is the first scholarly book-length analysis of the treaty. It brings to bear a range…

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists published a report from Ted Postol on how US Aegis-based missile defense systems in Eastern Europe do indeed violate the INF Treaty.  "The Western press has often treated the Russian claim that US missile defense…

he writer is President of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, and a former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs. He was president of the 2005 Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference.NEW YORK (IDN) – Although humankind has known…