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

Volume 38 - Number 1
June 2001

1. To the Pugwash Community
   
   
2. Pugwash Trip Reports: Pakistan, Korea and China
   
   
3. REPORTS ON RECENT PUGWASH MEETINGS
   
   • 14th Workshop of the Pugwash Study Group on the CBW Conventions: Key Issues for the Fifth BWC Review Conference 2001
     Pugwash Meeting No. 258
     Geneva, Switzerland, 18-19 November 2000
   • Medical Research in Cuba: Strengthening International Cooperation
     Pugwash Meeting No. 259
     Havana, Cuba, 15-17 February 2001
   • Pugwash Workshop: Moving Towards the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
     Pugwash Meeting No. 260
     New Delhi, India, 25-27 March 2001
   • Pugwash Workshop: East Asian Security
     Pugwash Meeting No. 261
     Seoul, South Korea, 3-6 April 2001
   
   
4. SELECTED ESSAYS: THE NUCLEAR THREAT
   
   • "Why do Hedgehogs Die?"
     by Franco Dupré
   • "Pugwash and the Nuclear Issue"
     by Sir Jospeh Rotblat
   • "Missile Defense and East Asia"
     by John Rhinelander
   • "The Impact of US NMD on China's Nulcear Modernization"
     by Li Bin
   • "Sharing Missile Launch Data"
     by John Steinbruner
     
     
5. PUGWASH IN THE NEWS
   
   • Ejaz Haider, "Idealism vs. Realism: Pugwash's Catch-22"
     The Friday Times (Lahore, Pakistan)
     
   • John Polanyi, "Canada Must Oppose US Missile Defence Plan"
     Toronto Star, May 23, 2001
     
     
6. Book Review
   
   • Scientific Cooperation, State Conflict: The Roles of Scientists in Mitigating International Discord (1998), Book review by Martin Kaplan
     
     
7. PUGWASH ACTIVITES
   • The Belgian Pugwash Group
   • International Student/Young Pugwash

    

8. OBITUARIES
   • Julio Cesar Carasales
   • Vitalii Goldanskii
   • Bill Epstein
   • Porter Jarrell
   • Laszlo Revesz
   • Johan Santesson
   • Douglas Morrison
   
   
9. Members of the Pugwash Council
   
   
10. Calendar of Future Meetings

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Pugwash Newsletter Vol.38 No.1, June 2001