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2008
July 23, 2008
National and Global Leaders Must Stop the US/India Nuclear Trade Deal, Says MPI Chairman
The proposed U.S.-India nuclear trade deal would critically undermine the Non-Proliferation Treaty and must be stopped, former Canadian Senator Douglas Roche, Chairman of the Middle Powers Initiative, said today. (more...)
July 14, 2008 - The Amherst Daily News
Pugwash Still Relevant Today
News that Russia is considering re-targeting its nuclear missiles at European cities in light of the United States’ decision to extend its missile shield to the Czech Republic and Poland, shows all too well that the need for the Pugwash Movement is just as strong today as it was just over a half century ago when some of the world’s brightest minds came to the seaside community to discuss nuclear non-proliferation...(more)
July 13, 2008 - The Halifax Chronicle-Herald
Pugwash and Proliferation
IRAN test-fires missiles that many believe may someday carry nuclear warheads.
The United States and the Czech Republic announce a deal to base a controversial radar for missile defence south of Prague. Meanwhile, the U.S. warns Iran that any attack against its allies will bring an unspecified harsh response....(more)
July 13, 2008 - The Halifax Chronicle-Herald
Thinkers' Lodge Named Historic Site
PUGWASH — To many Nova Scotians, Pugwash is a village east of Amherst noted for salt, fish and silversmiths. But elsewhere on the planet, the name Pugwash is bigger than a village.
It’s synonymous with a series of international peace initiatives that began in 1957 with a meeting of 22 of the world’s foremost scientists to discuss the threat of nuclear weapons. They gathered at the Pugwash summer home of wealthy businessman Cyrus Eaton, beginning a dialogue on peace that has since involved thousands of the world’s best brains and hundreds of meetings, conferences and workshops...(more)
July 12, 2008 - Canadian Press
Thinkers' Lodge Designated as Place of Historic Significance
PUGWASH, N.S. — Thinker's Lodge in Pugwash, N.S., was designated a place of national historic significance on Saturday.
Peter MacKay, minister of national defence and minister of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, announced the designation in Pugwash on behalf of Environment Minister John Baird...(more)
July 11, 2008 - Halifax Chronicle Herald
Placing N.S. at Centre of Disarmament Movement
AS ONE of the global council co-presidents of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (PNND), I will have the privilege this weekend to collaborate with legislators from five continents and leading experts in nuclear disarmament who will be gathering in Pugwash. Through energetic and visionary efforts of Pugwash Peace Exchange, the goal of this international conference is to build the necessary political will to advance nuclear non-proliferation and, ultimately, a nuclear weapons-free world....(more)
June 27 - Canada NewsWire
Pugwash Peace Exchange Wins Rotary International's Peace Award
PUGWASH, NS, June 27 /CNW Telbec/ - Pugwash Peace Exchange (PPE) has been awarded the Rotary International (Zone 22) Donald MacRae Peace Award that recognizes and honours PPE for outstanding achievement, in advancing "international understanding, goodwill and peace." Zone 22 consists of Rotary Clubs in Canada as well as parts of the United States, France and Russia....(more)
2007
Media Kit now available for 2007 Extraordinary Workshop (July 5 - 7, 2007).
To download the media kit pdf. file, please click HERE.
July 18, 2007 - The Light (Tatamagouche, NS)
Pugwash Peace Conference told Nuclear Threat Remains
Nuclear weapons remain as menacing as they were during the Cold War, Romeo Dallaire says.
The Lieutenant-General and member of Canada's senate is honourary patron of the Pugwash Peace Exchange and presided over last week's 50th anniversary workshop entitled Revitalizing Nuclear Disarmament. (more...)
July 11,2007 - The Halifax Daily News (Halifax, NS)
The delegates have all gone home, the Pugwash Movement is renewed, and officials with the Pugwash Peace Exchange could not be happier with how things went. (more...)
July 8, 2007 - The International Herald Tribune
Mikhail Gorbachev Tells International Conference More Work is Needed to Achieve Nuclear Disarmament
Mikhail Gorbachev told scientists and world leaders that more work is needed in the fight against a nuclear arms race durning an international conference Saturday.
The last leader of the Soviet Union issued a statement Saturday to organizers at the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs saying that discussions like the ones being held at this assembly of world leaders and scientists is a good start. (more...)
July 8, 2007 - Media Release
Revitalizing Nuclear Disarmament: Policy Recommendations of the Pugwash 50th Anniversary Workshop
As long as nuclear weapons exist, they will one day be used.
This sober, inescapable truth continues to haunt the international community. Every minute of every day, more than 26 000 nuclear weapons - many thousands of them on hair-trigger alert - are poised to bring mnumental destruction if they are ever used. Nuclear weapons have spread to more countries, and the international non-proliferation regime is perilously close to collapse. Poorly guarded stockpiles of highly enriched uranium and plutonium around the world could fall into the hands of terrorists who would think nothing of exploding a nuclear device in a major city. (more...)
July 5, 2007 - The Coast (Halifax, NS)
Bombs Away
Senator Romeo Dallaire wasn't thinking much about nuclear weapons when he got a call inviting him to become the Honourary Patron of the Pugwash Peace Exchange. But it didn't take much convincing.
"What i was working on (at the time) was massive crimes against humanity, which i continue to work on," says Dallaire on the phone from Ottawa, taking a minute to talk between meetings. "It struck me that the very existence of [nuclear weapons]...was a violation of our fumdamental human rights. They go against what we say we need the weapons for. People say we need them for balance...to protect our security, but that's exactly what they're not doing. They only make us more vulnerable to the possibility of nuclear conflict." (more...)
July 5, 2007 - The Chronicle Herald (Halifax, NS)
Russell-Einstein Manifesto
This statement, written at the height of the Cold War, was the result of a long collaboration between Albert Einstein, the famed physicist, and Bertrand Russell, one of the 20th century's greatest philosophers. Einstein died just days after agreeing to sign the letter, which was issued in London on July 9, 1955. (more...)
July 5, 2007 - The Chronicle Herald (Halifax, NS)
The Roots of a Big Idea
"My Lord, Your brilliant statement on nuclear warfare has made a dramatic world-wide impact. Could I help toward the realization of your proposal by anonymously financing a meeting of the scienctists in your group at Pugwash, Nova Scotia? I have dedicated a comfortably equipped residence there by the sea to scholarly groups."
Cyrus Eaton writing to Betrand (more...)
June 20, 2007 - The Light (Tatamagouche, NS)
Agenda In Place for 50th Anniversary of Pugwash Conferences
The 5oth anniversary of the Pugwas Conferences will be celebrated July 5 to 7 in Pugwash.
The Pugwash Conferences take their name from the location of the first meeting, in 1957 in Pugwash, birthplace of the American philanthropist Cyru Eaton, who hosted the meeting at his summer home, now called the Thinker's Lodge. (more...)
June 20, 2007 - Media Release
Parliment Recognizes Pugwash Conferences' Contribution to Nuclear Disarmament
(Ottawa) The Canadian Parliament today passed unanimously a motion congratulating the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs on its fiftieth anniversary. (more...)
June 15, 2007 - The Amherst Citizen (Amherst, NS)
Pugwash Conference Relevant As Ever
While we'd like to think the world is a much safer place today than it was 50 years ago, the fact remains the world is just as dangerous today as it was when the first Pugwash Conference was held at the summer home of Pugwash-born Cyrus Eaton in 1957. (more...)
June 13, 2007 - Media Release
Premier MacDonald, Sen. Dallaire, Hiroshima Mayor Akiba, to Mark 50th Anniversary of Historic Pugwash Peace Meeting
The village of Pugwash, Nova Scotia will once again be the focal point of global thinking on the on-going threat of nuclear weapons, 50 years after it hosted the first controversial meeting of Eastern and Western scientists inspired by Albert Einstein's appeal for peace. (more...)
June 14, 2007 - The Amherst Daily (Amherst, NS)
World Looks to Pugwash
At a time when the nuclear threat is as great as it has ever been, it's only appropriate for the spirit of the Pugwash Movement to be rekindled in the village where it was born.
A half century after some of the worlds greatest minds came to Pugwash to talk about peace and nuclear disarmament, the village will again be in the global spotlight in early July as the Pugwash Conferences come home to celebrate its 50th birthday. (more...)
June 14, 2007 - The Chronicle Herald (Halifax, NS)
Birthday of Anti-bomb Talks
Pugwash Confrences nears 50th anniversary (more...)
May 30, 2007 - Embassy (Ottawa, ON)
A Nuclear Disarmament Agenda for Canada
Bookstore shelves in Ottawa these days are filled with titles warning of a possible new Cold War between the West and Russia. Are things really that bad?
There's no doubt that almost twenty years since the end of the Cold War, nuclear weapons are still viewed as the currency of power. The states taht have them intend to keep them, but others want to join the exclusive nuclear club. (more...)
May 16, 2007 - The Amherst Daily News (Amherst, NS)
The Pugwash Conferences are Coming Home
Beginning July 5, The Pugwash Peace Exchange will be hosting a three-day workshop on revitalizing nuclear disarmament to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Nobel Prize-winning Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. (more...)
May 14, 2007 - Media Release
Canada Must Help Alleviate rising U.S. - Russian Tensions, says Pugwash Group
(Toronto) The Canadian Pugwash Group says that Canada should play a lead role in reparing the unravelling U.S. - Russian relationship by addressing NATO's outdated nuclear policies. (more...)
May 11, 2007 - Media Release
MacKay Raising Nuclear Issue with NATO President Welcomed by Pugwash Group
(Ottawa) Canadian members of the Nobel Prize-winning Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs welcomed Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay's announcement that he raised the issue of NATO'S nuclear weapons policy with the president of NATO at the alliance's recent meeting in Oslo, Norway, last month. (more...)
April 25, 2007 - The Oxford Journal (Oxford, NS)
Pugwash to Celebrate Bicentennial
Pugwash is celebrating its bicentennial this year. That's 200 years since the first settlers built their home in this Nova Scotian Village by the sea. When consulting "The History of Pugwash" by James F. Smith, there seems to be some dispute as to who was the first settler and the exact year of the earliest settlement. (more...)
March 7, 2007
The Pugwash Peace Exchange had its Annual General Meeting on Monday, March 5th. The meeting was well-attended and we would like to thank our volunteers for all of their assistance in making this event such a success.
Our guest speaker was Alex Morrison, the founding president of the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre. A transcript of his talk will soon be available on this site, so keep checking back!
Our Annual Report was presented at this time. A copy of it can be read by clicking here.
March 1, 2007
On Wednesday, February 28th, the Pugwash Peace Exchange held a public meeting at the St. Thomas Moore Church hall in Pugwash. A presentation was made, covering the business plan prepared by Gardner Pinfold of Halifax. This presentation is available in pdf format by clicking here.
A questions-and-answers session followed, with many thoughtful and interesting questions asked by various audience members. Afterwards, guests enjoyed coffee, tea and a wide variety of sweets provided by the Pugwash Peace Exchange volunteer committee.
The Pugwash Peace Exchange would like to express its sincere thanks to everybody who came out that evening to learn more about this exciting new project, and to the volunteers who helped to make it all possible.
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