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Wednesday 10 November 2010

Pugwashites Mentioned at DC Symposium on Science and Nuclear Disarmament

I just came across this Physics Today blog post by Charles Day, in which he mentions that at a recent AAAS/Japan Society for the Promotion of Science meeting, discussion highlighted several Pugwashites (Rotblat, Konuma, Yukawa, Tomonaga, Perkovich) and the impact of scientists on nuclear disarmament. Interesting mention is made by Konuma that two early Japanese Pugwashites were among the first to say that possession of nuclear weapons by some states is intrinsically unstable and can lead to an arms race.
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  1. Charles Day10 November 2010 at 15:40

    Thanks for the mention. I didn't know that Perkovich is a Pugwashite. Wearing my physics blinkers, I assumed that all Pugwashites are, and were, physicists, with the exception of Bertrand Russell

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