Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

The purpose of the Pugwash Conferences is to bring together, from around the world, influential scholars and public figures concerned with reducing the danger of armed conflict and seeking cooperative solutions for global problems. Meeting in private as individuals, rather than as representatives of governments or institutions, Pugwash participants exchange views and explore alternative approaches to arms control and tension reduction with a combination of candor, continuity, and flexibility seldom attained in official East-West and North-South discussions and negotiations. Yet, because of the stature of many of the Pugwash participants in their own countries (as, for example, science and arms-control advisers to governments, key figures in academies of science and universities, and former and future holders of high government office), insights from Pugwash discussions tend to penetrate quickly to the appropriate levels of official policy-making.

Additional Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs materials: Policy Briefs

Working Papers

Title: Re-nuclearization or Disarmament: A Fateful Choice for Humanity
Authors: Senator Douglas Roche
Date: May 2004

Title: 20th Pugwash Workshop Study Group on the Implementation of the CBW Conventions: The BWC Intersessional Process towards the Sixth Review Conference and Beyond
Authors: Scott Spence
Date: November 2003

Title: Preparing for the First Meeting of the States Parties: National Implementing Legislation and Security and Oversight of Pathogenic Microorganisms and Toxins
Authors: Graham S. Pearson and Nicholas A Sims
Date: November 2003

Title: BWC: Outcome of the Meeting of Experts, August 2003
Author: Graham S. Pearson
Date: November 2003

Title: 'Non Lethal' Weapons and Implementation of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions
Authors: M.S. Meselson and J.P. Perry Robinson
Date: November 2003

Title: Reactions to Self-censorship
Author: C.A. McLeish
Date: November 2003

Title: 2006 and beyond: Preparatory Assistance and Background Activities
Author: Jez Littlewood
Date: November 2003

Title: 20th Pugwash Workshop Study Group on the Implementation of the CBW Conventions: The BWC Intersessional Process towards the Sixth Review Conference and Beyond
Author: Scott Spence
Date: November 2003

Title: Pugwash_2nd Pugwash Workshop on Terrorism: External and Domestic Consequences of the War on Terrorism
Author: Alexander Nikitin
Date: October 2003

Title: Report on External and Domestic Consequences of the War on Terrorism
Author: Alexander Nikitin
Date: October 2003

Title: CIAO: Consequences of 9/11: Emergence of New Norms in International Law?
Author: László Valki
Date: October 2003

Title: Middle East Security and Iran
Author: Jeffrey Boutwell
Date: September 2003

Title: Report on Working Group 1 (Nuclear Weapons), the 53rd Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs Advancing Human Security: The Role of Technology and Politics
Authors: Dr. Jo Husbands, General Pan Zhenqiang, and Dr. Bob van der Zwaan
Date: July 2003

Title: Report on Working Group 2 (Weaponisation of Space and Missile Defence), the 53rd Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs Advancing Human Security: The Role of Technology and Politics
Authors: John Rhinelander, Rebecca Johnson, Will Marshall, Robert Schingler and George Whitesides
Date: July 2003

Title: Report on Working Group 3 (International Cooperation and Human Security), the 53rd Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs Advancing Human Security: The Role of Technology and Politics
Authors: Gabi Baramki,Gerard Toulouse, and H. Peter Langille
Date: July 2003

Title: Report on Working Group 4 (Terrorism), the 53rd Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs Advancing Human Security: The Role of Technology and Politics
Authors: Francesco Calogero, Pervez Hoodbhoy, and Hussein Solomon
Date: July 2003

Title: Report on Working Group 5 (New Technology For Human Development and Security), the 53rd Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs Advancing Human Security: The Role of Technology and Politics
Authors: Marie Muller, Suzuki Tatsujiro, Tom Børsen Hansen
Date: July 2003

Title: Report on Working Group 6 (Mitigation of Global Environmental Change), the 53rd Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs Advancing Human Security: The Role of Technology and Politics
Authors: Omar Masera, Kit Hill, and David Sandomierski
Date: July 2003 2003

Title: Securing Outer Space for the Future Strategic Considerations for Pugwash
Author: Rebecca Johnson
Date: July 2003

Title: Report on the 53rd Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs Advancing Human Security: The Role of Technology and Politics
Author: Paolo Cotta-Ramusino
Date: July 2003

Title: Pugwash Workshop on Preserving the Non-Weaponization of Space
Authors: Robert Schingler, Will Marshall, George Whitesides and Bojan Pecnik
Date: May 2003

Title: 19th Pugwash Workshop Study Group on the Implementation of the CBW Conventions: The First CWC Review Conference and Beyond
Author: Fiona Tregonning
Date: April 2003

Title: The Only Absolute Guarantee: A Brief on Canada's Nuclear Weapons Policies
Date: April 2003

Title: Iraq, North Korea and Nuclear Weapons
Authors: Paolo Cotta-Ramusino and Jeffrey Boutwell
Date: January 2003

Title: 18th Workshop of the Pugwash Study Group on the Implementation of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions: The Resumption of the Fifth BWC Review Conference 2002 and Beyond
Authors: Fiona Tregonning
Date: November 2002

Title: What Future for Arms Control? (The Silent Spring)
Authors: Jack Harris
Date: November 2002

Title: No First Use of Nuclear Weapons
Authors: Tom Milne
Date: November 2002

Title: No First Use in the India-Pakistan Context
Authors: Kanti Bajpai
Date: November 2002

Title: Implementation of No First Use of Nuclear Weapons Strategy/Agreements
Authors: Hugh Beach
Date: November 2002

Title: The US and No First Use: Preemption Trumps Deterrence?
Authors: Jeffrey Boutwell
Date: November 2002

Title: Russia's Doctrine on the Use of Nuclear Weapons
Authors: Yuri Fedorov
Date: November 2002

Title: No First Use
Authors: Lawrence Freedman
Date: November 2002

Title: NPT and the Security of NNWS
Authors: Jozef Goldblat
Date: November 2002

Title: Preliminary Reflections on No First Use Doctrine for the Middle East
Authors: Ariel Levite
Date: November 2002

Title: Obstacles to No-First-Use
Authors: Sverre Lodgaard
Date: November 2002

Title: The Utility of Nuclear Weapons and the Strategy of No-First-Use
Authors: Steven E. Miller
Date: November 2002

Title: No First Use and India's Nuclear Transition
Authors: C. Raja Mohan
Date: November 2002

Title: No First Use – It's Time is Not Foreseeable Whatever its Form
Authors: John B. Rhinelander
Date: November 2002

Title: Security and Defense Dilemmas in the Middle East: The Nuclear Dimension
Authors: Mohamed Kadry Said
Date: November 2002

Title: On China’s No First Use of Nuclear Weapons
Authors: Pan Zhenqiang
Date: November 2002

Title: South Asian Stability-A Pakistan Perspective
Authors: General(retired) Jehangir Karamat
Date: November 2002

Title: Some Draft Remarks on the Conference Agenda
Authors: Abdul Sattar
Date: November 2002

Title: The Law of Diminishing Threats
Authors: Lt. Gen. (retd) Asad Durrani
Date: November 2002

Title: India-Pakistan relations and South Asian Security
Authors: Pran Chopra
Date: November 2002

Title: Impact of Religious Extremism on Security of South Asia
Authors: Admiral L. Ramdas
Date: November 2002

Title: Some Cooperative Initiatives for India-Pakistan Dialogue and Risk Reduction
Authors: Ravinder Pal Singh
Date: November 2002

Title: Nuclear Weapons in South Asia: Risks and Their Reduction
Authors: R. Rajaraman
Date: November 2002

Title: India and Pakistan: Appeal for a Monitoring Mechanism Along the LoC
Authors: A.H. Nayyar and M. Martellini
Date: November 2002

Title: The Nuclear Threat is Real
Authors: Joseph Rotblat
Date: October 2002

Title: Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Authors: Götz Neuneck
Date: September 2002

Title: Report of Working Group 6: Climate Change, Energy and the Environment
Authors: Lisa Shaffer, Tatsujiro Suzuki and Bob van der Zwaan
Date: August 2002

Title: Report of Working Group 5: Globalization and Technology
Authors: Miles Kahler, Marie Muller and John Finney
Date: August 2002

Title: Report of Working Group 4: International Governance and Security
Authors: Ochieng Adala, Lynn Eden and John Avery
Date: August 2002

Title: Report of Working Group 3: CBW and WMD Terrorism
Authors: Miles Kahler, Marie Muller and John Finney
Date: August 2002

Title: Report of Working Group 2: Missile Defenses and the Uses of Space
Authors: Catherine Kelleher, Jasjit Singh and Götz Neuneck
Date: August 2002

Title: Report of Working Group 1: The Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
Authors: Jo Husbands, Sverre Lodgaard and Tom Milne
Date: August 2002

Title: Impending Challenges to Strategic Stability: Constraining the Nuclear Threat
Authors: Pamela Mills
Date: June 2002

Title: 17th Workshop of the Pugwash Study Group on the Implementation of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions: The Impending First CWC Review
Authors: John B. Rhinelander
Date: June 2002

Title: Report on Working Group IV: Natural Resource Issues - And Security
Authors: Adele Buckley, Waliur Rahman and Venance Journé
Date: March 2002

Title: Report on Working Group III: Globalization, Technology and Inequalities
Authors: Walter Dorn, Ana Maria Cetto and Nola Dippenaar
Date: March 2002

Title: Report on Working Group II: Transnational Security Issues
Authors: Jeffrey Boutwell, Jo Husbands and Sverre Lodgaard
Date: March 2002

Title: Report on Working Group I: The Nuclear Future
Authors: Steven E. Miller, Francesco Calogero and Uzi Rubin
Date: March 2002

Title: 16th Workshop of the Pugwash Study Group on the Implementation of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions: The Fifth BTWC Review Conference
Authors: Pamela Mills
Date: November 2001

Title: Misuse of Science
Authors: Michael Atiyah, Ralph Benjamin, Ana María Cetto, Matthew Meselson, and Joseph Rotblat
Date: August 2000

Title: Resources and Environmental Degradation as Sources of Conflict
Authors: Anne H. Ehrlich, Peter Gleick, and Ken Conca
Date: August 2000

Title: Human Aggressiveness and War
Authors: Robert A. Hinde and Lea Pulkinnen
Date: August 2000

Title: Poverty as a Cause of Wars
Authors: Morris Miller
Date: August 2000

Title: Political and Economic Causes of War
Authors: Alexander Nikitin
Date: August 2000

Title: Ethnicity and Religion
Authors: Helen Watson and Jack Boag
Date: August 2000