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Pugwash Meeting no. 279

"No First Use of Nuclear Weapons"

London, UK, 15-17 November 2002

PARTICIPANTS

Prof. Kanti Bajpai, Professor of International Politics, Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Sir Hugh Beach, Member, British Pugwash Group Executive Committee; Board Member: Centre for Defence Studies, VERTIC, ISIS - all London, UK [formerly: Master General of the Ordnance, British Armed Forces (1977-81)]

Prof. Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Secretary General, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs; Professor of Mathematical Physics, University of Milan, Italy; Director, Program on Disarmament and International Security, Landau Network – Centro Volta, Como, Italy [formerly: Secretary General, Union of Italian Scientists for Disarmament (USPID)]

Prof. Cheng Kaiyu, Researcher, China Academy of Engineering Physics, China.

Prof. Yuri Fedorov, Deputy Director, Institute of Applied International Research, Russia [formerly: Deputy Director, PIR-Center for Policy Studies, Moscow; Professor of Political Science, Moscow State Institute of International Relations; Head of Strategic Studies Department, Institute for USA & Canada Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia]

Dr Hal Feiveson, Senior Research Scientist, Program on Science and Global Security, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, USA; Editor, Science and Global Security.

Prof. John Finney, Treasurer, British Pugwash Group; Professor of Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, UK [formerly: ISIS Chief Scientist, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (1990-1993); Science Coordinator, European Spallation Source Project (1993-1997); Professor of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, London (1986-1993)].

Prof. Lawrence Freedman, Professor of War Studies and Head of the School of Social Science and Public Policy, King’s College, London, UK.

Dr Jozef Goldblat, Vice President, Geneva International Peace Research Institute (GIPRI), Geneva, Switzerland; Consultant, United Nations, Geneva [formerly: Director, Arms Control & Disarmament Programme, SIPRI (1969-89)]

Prof. John (Jack) Harris, Member, British Pugwash Group Executive Committee, UK [formerly: Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, UK; Manager in charge of Nuclear Fuel Cycle Research, Berkeley Nuclear Laboratory, Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB); Royal Society/Esso Gold Medallist for Civil Nuclear Fuel Cycle work; Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS); Fellow Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng); MBE]

Prof. Robert Hinde, Chairman, British Pugwash Group; former Royal Society Research Professor (now retired) [also formerly: Master, St. John’s College, Cambridge, UK; Hon. Director, Medical Research Council (MRC) Unit on the Development & Integration of Behavior]

Prof. John Holdren, Teresa & John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy & Director, Program in Science, Technology, & Public Policy, Center for Science & International Affairs (CSIA), John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Professor of Environmental Science & Public Policy, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; Visiting Distinguished Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center; Chair, Committee on International Security and Arms Control (CISAC), National Academy of Sciences; Chair, Panel on Reactor Options for the Disposition of Excess Weapon Plutonium, National Academy of Sciences. [formerly, Member, President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), The White House; Professor of Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley, California]

Gen. (ret.) Dr. Mohamed Kadry Said, Member, Pugwash Council; Head of Military Studies Unit and Technology Advisor, Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Al-Ahram Foundation, Cairo, Egypt; Professor of Missile Mechanics of Flight, Military Technical College (MTC), Cairo [formerly: Deputy Director, Center of Defence Studies, Cairo]

Dr Ariel Levite, Israel Atomic Energy Commission.

Prof. Liu Gongliang, Vice Chief Engineer, Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics (IAPCM), Beijing, China

Mr Sverre Lodgaard, Director, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Oslo, Norway [formerly: Member, Pugwash Council; Director, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), Geneva; Director, Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO)]

Dr Saideh Lotfian, Associate Professor of Political Science (on leave), Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran, Iran; Visiting Iranian Fellow, St Antony's College, University of Oxford.

Dr Zia Mian, Program on Science and Global Security, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, USA.

Dr Steven Miller, Director, International Security Program, Center for Science & International Affairs (CSIA), Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; Editor-in-Chief, International Security; Member, Pugwash Council; Co-Chair, U.S. Pugwash Group [formerly: Senior Research Fellow, SIPRI; Assistant Professor, Defence and Arms Control Studies, MIT]

Dr Tom Milne, Member, British Pugwash Group Executive Committee; Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, UK.

Dr Harald Mueller, Director, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Germany.

Dr Alexander Nikitin, Director, Center for Political and International Studies (CPIS), Moscow, Russia; Deputy Chair, Russian Pugwash Committee of Scientists for Disarmament and International Security; Vice-President of the Russian Political Science Association; Professor, Moscow State Institute of International Relations; Member, Pugwash Council

Prof. Amnon Pazy, Professor of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel [formerly: Chairman, Planning and Budgeting Committee, Council for Higher Education, Jerusalem; President and Rector, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1985-91)]

Sir Joseph Rotblat, Member, British Pugwash Group Executive Committee; Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of London, UK; 1995 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; Emeritus President, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.

Rear-Admiral (Rtd.) Camille Sellier, Adviser, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA), Direction des Applications Militaries (DAM), Bruyères Le Châtel, France [formerly: Deputy Director, Nuclear Forces Division of Joint Armies General Staff; Deputy Director, Weapons and Technology, Direction des Applications Militaires, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique]

Air Commodore Jasjit Singh, Director, Centre for Strategic and International Studies; Member, Pugwash Council; Member, Indian Pugwash Society [formerly: Director, Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi; Director (Operations), Air Headquarters, New Delhi; Convener, Indian Pugwash Society]

Dr. Mark Byung-Moon Suh (Germany/South Korea), Member, Pugwash Council; Senior Researcher, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany; President, Korean Pugwash Group [formerly: Director, Korean International Peace Research Institute (KIPRI), Seoul; Member, Advisory Council on Democratic & Peaceful Unification of Korea, Seoul; Secretary-General, Council on German-Korean Security Studies, Berlin]



Observer

Ms Carin Atterling Wedar, Lector, Theological Faculty, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; Secretary-General, Swedish Initiative for Peace, Security and International Relations, Stockholm; Member, Swedish Pugwash Group.