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smartbit 19 hours ago

Richard Garwin was member [0] of Pugwash [1]

He was an active and kind participant in many Pugwash, ISODARCO and Amaldi conferences. From 1982 on, Garwin worked with Gorbatschev’s Science Advisor, Evgeny Velikhov, and other American and Russian scientist on proposals limiting nuclear arsenals and space-based weapons.

[0] https://pugwash.org/2025/05/20/obituary-and-appreciation-for...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pugwash_Conferences_on_Science...

divbzero 18 hours ago | parent [-]

In 1995, fifty years after the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and forty years after the signing of the Russell–Einstein Manifesto, the Pugwash Conferences and Joseph Rotblat were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly "for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms."