The Pugwash Newsletter
Issued by the Council of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

Volume 37 - Number 2
December 2000

1. To the Pugwash Community
   
   
2. PUGWASH MEETING NO. 255
   50TH PUGWASH CONFERENCE: ELIMINATING THE CAUSES OF WAR
   
   • Communique and Statement of the Pugwash Council
   • Conference Agenda
   • Presidential Address - Sir Michael Atiyah
   • List of Working Group and Proferred Papers
   • List of Participants
   
   
3. REPORTS ON RECENT PUGWASH MEETINGS
   
   • The Future of the Nuclear Weapons Complexes of Russia and the USA: Status and Prospects of Naval Nuclear Weapons and Development of the Science-Industry Complex of the Russian Northwest
     Pugwash Meeting No. 254 :
     St. Petersburg-Petrozavodsk, Russia, 28 May - 1 June 2000
   • Intervention, Sovereignity, and International Security
     2nd Workshop of the Pugwash Study Group on Intervention, Sovereignty and International Security
     Pugwash Meeting No. 256 :
     Como, Italy, 28-30 September 2000
   • Pugwash Workshop on Missile Defenses and Nuclear Stability
     Pugwash Meeting No. 257 :
     Sigtuna, Sweden, 26-28 October 2000
   
   
4. PLENARY ADDRESSES FROM THE 50TH PUGWASH CONFERENCE
   
   • "Fifty Pugwash Conferences: A Tribute to Eugene Rabinowitch,"
     by Sir Joseph Rotblat
   • "India and the Bomb,"
     by Amartya Sen, the Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture
   • "Eliminating the Causes of War,"
     by David Hamburg
   • "The Impasse in Nuclear Disarmament,"
     by John Holdren
   
   
5. NEWS FROM ISODARCO
   
   
6. PUGWASH IN THE MEDIA
   
   • Sir Michael Atiyah, "Don't Put the World on the Defensive,"
     The Boston Globe, 6 Sept. 2000
     
   • Gwyn Prins, "Nuclear Disaster May Still Be Averted,"
     The St. Petersburg Times (Russia), 25 August 2000
     
   • Ejaz Haider, "Is the Pugwash Movement Ready for New Challenges?"
     The Friday Times (Lahore), 18-24 August 2000
     
   
   
7. ACTIVITES OF NATIONAL PUGWASH GROUPS
   • Canadian Pugwash Group, A Tribute to Bill Epstein
     
     
8. REPORT OF YOUNG/STUDENT PUGWASH GROUPS
   • International Student/Young Pugwash
     
     
9. OBITUARIES
   • Mark Oliphant
   • H.B.G. Casimir
   • Adam Yarmolinsky
   • Paolo Farinella
   
   
10. Members of the Pugwash Council
    
    
11. Calendar of Future Meetings

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Pugwash Newsletter Vol.37 No.2, December 2000