New Pugwash Secretary General Paolo Cotta-Ramusino and Pugwash Delegation Meet with Pakistan Prime Minister Raza Gilani to Discuss Security in South Asia, June 15, 2009 (Posted April 2009)
New Pugwash in New York at the Third Preparatory Committee of the 2010 NPT Review Conference, May 4-8, 2009 (Posted May 2009)

New Pugwash President Jayantha Dhanapala and Secretary General Paolo Cotta-Ramusino visit policymakers in Washington, DC, April 27-29, 2009 to discuss nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation (Posted April 2009)

News and Photos from the 58th Pugwash International Conference Justice, Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, The Hague, The Netherlands, 17-20 April 2009 (Posted March 2009) Nearly two hundred scientists and policy experts from around the world gather to discuss critical issues of: Nuclear Disarmament, Nonproliferation and the 2010 NPT Review Conference; Regional Conflict in the Middle East and South Asia; Human Rights; and Climate Change, Energy Resources and Technology Sharing. Special thanks to Pugwash Netherlands for hosting this conference. Participants Only Photos Council Statement Working Group Reports

Pugwash in Nature: Andrew Robinson reviews the new documentary film, The Strangest Dream, and two recent books on Joseph Rotblat, and a Nature editorial on Pugwash and nuclear weapons, 3 April 2009 (Posted April 2009)

Triangulating Science, Security and Society: The Pugwash Conferences (1.6 MB pdf), keynote address by Jeffrey Boutwell, Executive Director, at the 6th Annual International Opportunities Expo at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 2 April 2009 (Posted April 2009)

Bringing Iran into the nuclear family, Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, 17 March 2009 (Posted March 2009)
West Urged to Seize Opportunity to Improve Iran Relations, IRNA, Tehran, 18 March 2009

Crisis in Gaza: Pugwash Council Statement (also available in Arabic - 72.3 KB pdf); commentary (also available in Arabic - 80.3 KB pdf) by Paolo Cotta-Ramusino and Jayantha Dhanapala; and commentary (also available in Arabic - 198.3 KB pdf) by Paolo Cotta-Ramusino (9 January 2009) (Posted January 2009)

John Holdren, former chair of the Pugwash Executive Committee who delivered the Nobel Peace Prize speech on behalf of Pugwash in Oslo in 1995, has been confirmed by the US Senate to be director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and will serve as Science Advisor to President Barack Obama. John is well known throughout the Pugwash Community, having attended his first Pugwash meeting in Aulanko, Finland in August 1973 and having served for many years on the US Pugwash Committee and the Pugwash Council. All of us in Pugwash wish John the very best, and look forward to working closely with him on the important issues of nuclear weapons, energy, and the environment that have been the hallmark of John's distinguished career. For more, see http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/john-holdren (Posted December 2008)
See also: Pugwash Letter to Congratulate John Holdren
See also: John Holdren's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, on behalf of the Pugwash Conferences, in Oslo in December 1995
See also: From a 2000 Pugwash speech: "A nuclear-weapon-free world is not just a dream. It's a necessity. It's the ultimate prgamatism in my view. It's the one long-term goal that makes short-term arms control measures that lead toward it more than just temporizing. The analysis in support of this proposition becomes more persuasive every year....In a rapidly changing world, which we are certainly living in, the establishment consensus on the necessity of nuclear weapons could crumble quickly too....[O]ptimism is the only alternative to despair. Despair is paralyzing; optimism is energizing. Pugwash was founded on optimism and on analysis. With your optimism, your analysis, and your energy, we are going to get out of the arms control impasse that afflicts us today, and we will get to a nuclear-weapon-free world." — John Holdren
See also: Pugwash Correspondence between John Holdren and Goetz Neuneck, 21 December 2008

Rotblat Centenary Celebration Wednesday, 10 December 2008, The Royal Society, London (Posted December 2008)
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Pugwash President Jayantha Dhanapala called on UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 23 October in New York and briefed him on the activities of Pugwash

Pugwash President Jayantha Dhanapala visited Japan during the first week of August to help mark the anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and meet with a wide range of Japanese policymakers and experts (Posted August 2008)
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Pugwash Urges Removal of All NATO Nuclear Weapons, Press Release, 27 June 2008 (Posted June 2008)

What Good Are These Things For? The Pragmatic Push to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons, an audio interview with Pugwash President Jayantha Dhanapala interviewed by A World of Possibilities (Posted March 2008)

Dr. Jayantha Dhanapala: "I am deeply honored to assume the Presidency of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs in the 50th anniversary year of this great movement founded on the bedrock of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto."

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