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Nuclear Weapons Reports and Statements

Reports & Statements

Pugwash Leaders’ Statement on 65th Anniversary of Hiroshima/Nagasaki, on Bikini Atoll as UNESCO World Heritage Site,
Need for Concrete Progress on Disarmament

Pugwash European Delegation discusses nuclear weapons issues in Moscow, (1 MB pdf) 24-28 April 2010

Pugwash European Delegation discusses nuclear weapons issues in Washington, DC, (1 MB pdf) 1-5 March 2010

French translation of the report of the Hans Blix WMD Commission, prepared by Venance Journe (May 2010)

Pugwash at the 2010 NPT Review Conference
Pugwash Proposal at the NPT Review Conference on the concept of a Middle East WMD-Free Zone (May 2010)
Pugwash President Jayantha Dhanapala and Secretary General Paolo Cotta-Ramusino release statement on the conclusion
of the 2010 NPT Review Conference, 29 May 2010
Pugwash NPT Briefing Book (1.4 MB pdf)
Pugwash Issue Brief by Jayantha Dhanapala
Pugwash NPT Consultation, May 8, 2010
Pugwash NPT Consultation, May 15, 2010
Jayantha Dhanapala statement during NGO session, May 7, 2010

Jayantha Dhanapala interview, "After START, What's Next?" (May 28, 2010)

Pugwash President Jayantha Dhanapala welcomes the US-Russian START Treaty
29 March 2010

Pugwash President Jayantha Dhanapala contributes to US State Department
publication A World Free of Nuclear Weapons, February 2010

Nuclear Weapons Free World Statements

Pugwash releases the "Milan Document on Nuclear Disarmament and
Non-Proliferation" issued following the Pugwash NPT Roundtable Discussion
in Milan on 29 January 2010
Document (141.5 KB pdf)
Photos
Participant List
Agenda
Commentaries
Document in Arabic (136 KB pdf)
Document in Farsi (2.3 MB pdf)

Report of Pugwash Consultations on CTBT Entry into Force
Report
Participant List
Prospects
Photos

Roundtable on Nuclear Weapons Policies and the NATO Strategic Concept Review,
co-hosted by Des Browne, convenor of the Top Level Group, and
Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Secretary General of the Pugwash Conferences,
House of Commons, London, 15 January 2010, where strong concerns were raised
that the process of consultation on the NATO Strategic Concept Review is not
providing opportunity for adequate political and public input.
Photos
Participant List
Report

Strengthening the International Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime: Promoting a,
Successful NPT Review Conference in 2010; November 20-21, 2009
Photos

Report now available from the Conference on an Arctic Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone,
(4.1 MB pdf) Copenhagen, August 10-11, 2009, organized by the Danish and Canadian
Pugwash Groups, in collaboration with the Danish Institute for International Studies, PNND,
IPPNW and IALANA.    The conference report has been published and can also be obtained 
from http://www.lulu.com/john189

Pugwash President Jayantha Dhanapala Interview, 12 August, 2009

Climbing to the Top of the Mountain International Student/Young Pugwash, Pugwash,
Nova Scotia, Canada, 11 July 2009

Disarmament and Non-Proliferation by Paolo Cotta-Ramusino - (162.2 KB pdf)

Pugwash President Jayantha Dhanapala pays tribute to Mr. McNamara, 8 July 2009

Pugwash Executive Committee Statement on the DPRK Nuclear Test, 26 May 2009

Pugwash in New York at the Third Preparatory Committee of the 2010 NPT Review
Conference, May 4-8, 2009

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

Pugwash in NatureAndrew 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)

Remove, don't reset, the nuclear button, Point of View, Jayantha Dhanapala (1.1 MB pdf)

28th Workshop of the Pugwash Study Group on the Implementation of the Chemical and
Biological Weapons Conventions: The Second CWC Review and After, Noordwijk,
The Netherlands, 5-6 April 2008
Agenda;
List of Papers;
Report;
Participant List

Japan-US International Workshop:  Reducing Threats Posed by Nuclear Weapons: Possible
Cooperation between Japan and the United States
, 24-25 January 2009, Tokyo, Japan

More support, from three retired UK generals, for the goal of eliminating nuclear weapons,
The Times (London), 16 January 2009

Nuclear Weapons in Europe: Time for Disarmament? An International Workshop of the
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, Antwerp, Belgium, 21-23 November 2008

Rotblat Centenary Celebration Agenda and Photos, 10 December, 2008, The Royal Society,
London

Pugwash Work on Nuclear Disarmament and Non-proliferation (305.4 KB pdf), 17 November,
2008, Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen

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

International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts, 22nd Winter Course:
Nuclear Futures: What Would Nuclear Disarmament Look Like? Andalo (Trento) - Italy,
11-18 January 2009

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:
Report;
Photos;
Articles;
Video Message of Amb. Dhanapala

Pugwash Urges Removal of All NATO Nuclear Weapons, Press Release, 27 June 2008

Pugwash Scientific Advisory Group International Technical Verification Efforts

Commentary by R. Rajaramaran published in the Times of India (17 March 2008)
"A Nuclear Weapon Free World—A New Promise?"

Pugwash President Jayantha Dhanapala receives the Sean MacBride Prize from the
International Peace Bureau
, Alexandria, Egypt, November 11, 2007;  
Text of acceptance speech by Jayantha Dhanapala

Global Nuclear Experts Return to Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada, for Historic
Meeting, July 6-7, 2007
On July 6 and 7, the Nobel Prize-winning Pugwash Conferences on Science and World
Affairs and the influential New York-based Middle Powers Initiative will bring together
25 scientists, diplomats and former military officers from 15 countries for a "Revitalizing
Nuclear Disarmament" strategy workshop. The meeting will be held near the Thinkers'
Lodge, the site of the first meeting in 1957.
(press release - 61.1 KB pdf — media kit - 2.5 MB pdf)
Communique from the 50th Anniversary Workshop
Press Coverage
Photos
Participants
Papers
Speeches

Nuclear non proliferation and disarmament, Paolo Cotta Ramusino, Secretary General
of the Pugwash Conferences and Physics Department, Universita'

Canadian Pugwash Calls for NATO to Denuclearize, (1.1 MB pdf)

Priorities in Nuclear Arms Control and Non-Proliferation: Comparing Approaches
of Russia and the West, Moscow, Russia, 25-28 April 2007

A Nuclear Disarmament Agenda for Canada,
by Ernie Regehr, Embassy Magazine, May 30th, 2007

"Preparing to Overcome the Crisis of Credibility" Pugwash meeting in Vienna
5 May 2007

Can Nuclear Proliferation Be Stopped? (in English 421.9 KB pdf or Arabic 144.4 KB pdf)
by Jozef Goldblat, Geneva International Peace Research Institute (GIPRI), 2007

Mikhail Gorbachev Urges Delay of UK Trident Replacement,
Times (London), 8 March 2007. See also the UK government response, and letters from
           Sandra Ionno Butcher and Robert Hinde of Pugwash.

The Rome Declaration of Nobel Peace Laureates (845.2 KB pdf)

Pugwash Participants in Discussions of Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone in Central
           Asia, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 17-18 October 2006

Sleepwalking Towards a Nuclear Catastrophe, by Douglas Roche, 4 October 2006

Pugwash Workshop: Nuclear Non Proliferation and Disarmament - The Role of
           Europe. Pugwash Meeting no. 320, Amsterdan, The Netherlands, 7-8 June 2006
Report by Bob vander Zwaan
Participant List

Pugwash and Eliminating Nuclear Weapons: The Way Forward
           A Special Colloquium in Honor of Sir Joseph Rotblat
           10 December 2005, London, UK

UK scientists petition Prime Minister Blair on replacing the Trident System (November 2005)

US physicists mount petition effort against Bush administration nuclear policy (October 2005)

Statement to the IAEA Board of Governors from the Islamic Republic of Iran,
           and other IAEA members (August 2005)

A Promising Direction for G8 Leadership, By Rose Gottemoeller
           From the Moscow Times, Friday July 8, 2005, pg. 8

Articles by R. Rajaraman, India Pugwash Group:
          Cap the nuclear arsenal now, Jan. 25, 2005, The Hindu
     
     Tsunami and the Bomb, Jan. 11, 2005, Hindustan Times, New Delhi

Pugwash Council statement on the NPT, 19 June 2005

The 50-Year Shadow, by Joseph Rotblat, New York Times, 17 May 2005

Emerging Nuclear Proliferation Challenges, edited by C. Uday Bhaskar and C. Raja
Mohan, Papers from the Pugwash Conferences and IDSA Conference, 28-29 March 2005,
New Delhi, India

"Threats to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty," (488 KB pdf) by Erika Simpson
(Pugwash Canada), Embassy, 4 May, 2005

Pugwash and the 2005 NPT Review Conference
Pugwash recommendations to the NPT Review Conference, 9 May 2005
"Non-Proliferation and the NPT," address by Sec. Gen. Paolo Cotta-Ramusino to a
conference on the Treaty of Tlatelolco, 26-28 April 2005, Mexico City
"Remember Your Humanity," an appeal from Sir Joseph Rotblat to the delegates of the
2005 NPT Review Conference
"Orbiting the NPT," by C. Raja Mohan, co-chair of India Pugwash Group, The Indian
Express, 3 May 2005
"First week of NPT RevCon, agenda yet to be finalized," by C. Uday Bhaskar, IDSA,
New Delhi, 8 May 2005
Briefings from the Acronym Institute on the NPT Review Conference
Official NPT Review Conference Documents

Einstein, the Bomb, and me... an Interview with Joseph Rotblat, The Guardian Newspaper,
January 2005.

Weapons of Mass Destruction Elimination: A Middle Eastern Perspective,
a joint meeting of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission chaired by Dr. Hans Blix,
the Pugwash Conferences, the Egyptian Council on Foreign Affairs, and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung,
Cairo, Egypt, 29-30 January 2005.

Atlanta Consultation II: On the Future of the NPT The Middle Powers Initiative
and the Carter Center
, 26-28 January 2005, Atlanta, Georgia

Non-Proliferation of WMD Delivery Systems, Potsdam/Berlin, November 2004.

Washington Post article on the death of Ted Taylor, who died on 28 October 2004.

Re-nuclearization or Disarmament: A Fateful Choice for Humanity, by Senator Douglas Roche,
May 2004 (prepared for the Third PrepComm of the 2005 NPT Review Conference).
A pdf is available.

Swedish government report on HEU that derived in part from a Pugwash initiative; for more
information, go to www.ski.se.

7th Pugwash Workshop on the Future of the Nuclear Weapons Complexes of Russia
and the USA: Security of the Russian Nuclear Complex: International Assistance in
Liquidation of Excess Fissile Materials, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1-3 July 2004

9-12 October 2003, Como, Italy: 2nd Pugwash Workshop on Terrorism: External and Domestic Consequences of the War on Terrorism

Time is Ripe to Act on Middle East Weapons, by Mohamed ElBaradei and Joseph Rotblat,
London Financial Times, 3 February, 2004

Pervez Hoodbhoy, The Nuclear Noose Around Pakistan's Neck,
Washington Post, 1 February, 2004

Pugwash Executive Committee Statement on Libya and Non-Proliferation
28 January 2004
Other perspectives from the Pugwash community

Pugwash Workshop No. 289:
2nd Pugwash Workshop on Terrorism: External and Domestic
Consequences of the War on Terrorism
Como, Italy, 9-12 October 2003
Participants
Papers
Workshop Report, by Alexander Nikitin

"The Only Absolute Guarantee", a Brief on Canada's Nuclear Weapons Policies
by the Canadian Pugwash Group
April 2003

Statement by the Pugwash Executive Committee on the War in Iraq
20 March 2003

Crises in the Middle East and East Asia - Personal Perspectives
 War: Which Way to Turn? by Tad Homer-Dixon, 8 February 2003
 Is it a War on Islam? by Pervez Hoodbhoy, 16 January 2003
Iraq, North Korea and Nuclear Weapons, by Paolo Cotta-Ramusino and Jeffrey Boutwell
10 January 2003

The Nuclear Threat is Real, by Joseph Rotblat
Address to the 3rd World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates
Rome, Italy, 19-20 October 2002

"No First Use of Nuclear Weapons"
Pugwash Meeting No. 279
15-17, November 2002, London, UK
Participants
Workshop Report by Tom Milne
Papers
Pugwash Symposium at The Royal Society, London, 14 November 2002
"What Future for Arms Control?", with Hugh Beach (UK), Steven Miller (US),
and Alexander Nikitin (Russia)

Pugwash Workshop on Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Como, Italy, 26-28 September 2002
Participants
Workshop Report, by Goetz Neuneck

Pugwash Workshop on Nuclear Weapons and Strategic Stability
Moscow, Russia, 8-10 July 2002
Participants
Workshop Report, by John B. Rhinelander

Workshop on Tactical Nuclear Weapons
Pugwash Meeting No. 270
24-25, May 2002, Sigtuna, Sweden
Participants
Papers

Nuclear Stability and Missile Defenses
Pugwash Meeting No. 266
6-8, September 2001, Como, Italy
Participants
Papers:

  "A New Transatlantic Deal on Missile Defense After the Terrorist Attacks?" by ThÈrËse Delpech
  "US and Russia - Bound to Cooperate on BMD?" by John B. Rhinelander
 

"Stabilty Effects of Limited Missile Defenses: The Case for the Affirmative" by Walter B. Slocombe

Workshop on Moving Towards the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
Pugwash Meeting No. 260
New Delhi, India, March 25-27, 2001
"Pugwash and the Nuclear Issue" by Joseph Rotblat
"The Military Utility of Nuclear Weapons and the Case for Disarmament" by Kanti Bajpai
Workshop Papers
Participants

Workshop on Nuclear Stability and Missile Defense
Pugwash Meeting No. 257
Sigtuna, Sweden, October 26-28, 2000
Occasional Paper
Participants

"The Impasse in Nuclear Disarmament" by John Holdren
Plenary Address to the 50th Pugwash Conference, Cambridge, UK, 5 Aug. 2000

"Status and Prospects of Naval Nuclear Weapons and Development of the
Science-Industry Complex of the Russian North-West":
St. Petersburg-Petrozavodsk, Russia, May 28 - June 1, 2000
Workshop Report
Workshop Schedule
Article on Soviet nuclear waste issues
(revised after the loss of the Kursk) by Gwyn Prins

The Effects of Low Level Radiation: Meeting of the British Pugwash Group
London, UK, April 18, 2000

Workshop on "The Abolition of Nuclear Weapons": New Delhi, India
11-13 October 1999

A Report from the Secretary General: "Nuclear Weapons Issues and the
Pugwash Agenda" April 2000

"Indian Draft Nuclear Doctrine: Some Reflections" by Jasjit Singh; a paper
published in the November '99 Pugwash Newsletter
Draft Report of National Security Advisory Board on Indian Nuclear Doctrine: August 17, 1999

Statement of the Pugwash Council: "Nuclear Weapons and the Comprehensive
Test Ban Treaty" 12 November 1999

Workshop on "Nuclear Forces": Como, Italy, 9-10 July 1999

Workshop on "Nuclear Proliferation and Security in the Pacific Rim": Hilo,
Hawaii, 20-23 January 1999

"The Elimination of Nuclear Weapons" A Public Meeting at the Royal Society
in Honor of the 90th Birthday of Sir Joseph Rotblat: London, England,
7 November 1998
John Holdren's Speech in honor of the occasion

"New Dangers to World Security" by Joseph Rotblat, a paper published in
the October '98 Pugwash Newsletter

"The Future of the Nuclear Weapon Complexes of Russia and the USA":
Moscow and Sarov (Arzamas-16), Russia, 14-18 July 1998
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