Word: pugwash
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...PUGWASH First Canadian fishing village in history to lend its name to a Nobel Peace Prize winner...
...Project--the only physicist to do so--believing that only the threat of losing World War II could justify creating so terrible a weapon. Then, in 1955, Rotblat joined Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell and six other scientists in signing a manifesto that led to the founding of the annual Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, which have lobbied ever since to convince governments that, in Rotblat's own words, "the genie can be put back in the bottle...
...this honor not for me personally but rather for the small group of scientists who have been working for 40 years to try to save the world, often against the world's wish," the 87-year old British activist told reporters in London. The Nobel committee also cited the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, the disarmament group Rotblat helped found in 1955 as part of an effort to get scientists to recognize responsibility for their inventions. The annual Pugwash Conferences were instrumental in creating a common understanding of the dangers of nuclear arms among scientists and leaders from...
...Pugwash Conferences were based on a 1955 manifesto that read, in part: "We have to learn to think in a new way. We have to learn to ask ourselves, not what steps can be taken to give military victory to whatever group we prefer, for there no longer are such steps; the question we have to ask ourselves is: what steps can be taken to prevent a military contest of which the issue must be disastrous to all parties...
...Pugwash grant came from a portion of the Human Genome Project's budget designated specifically for education. Sun and the other organizers received the grant after submitting a proposal outlining the conference's main objectives...