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Webinar: The Russell-Einstein Manifesto at 70: Scientists Advancing Peace and Global Security
July 31 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm EDT
On 9 July 1955, Bertrand Russell delivered a public statement in London on the dangers of nuclear weapons. It was cosigned by Albert Einstein, in his last public political act, and has come to be known as the Russell-Einstein Manifesto. The Manifesto led in 1957 to the founding of the Pugwash Conferences for Science and World Affairs, which received the 1995 Peace Nobel Prize. This presentation will introduce Pugwash, its work during the Cold War, and its current status and priorities at a time of grave nuclear dangers and challenges. It will highlight some ways scientists today can act on the Manifesto’s call.
Speakers: –
- Karen Hallberg, Secretary General, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
- Matthew Evangelista, President White Professor of History and Political Science Emeritus, Cornell University
- Talia Weiss, Physics Ph.D. student at Yale University, Director of International Student/Young Pugwash (ISYP)
- Zia Mian (moderator), Co-Director, Princeton Program on Science and Global Security.
Resources:
Additional Readings:
- Zia Mian, Out of the Nuclear Shadow: Scientists and the Struggle against the Bomb, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January 2015
- Fetter, R. Garwin, and F. N. von Hippel, Nuclear Weapons Dangers and Policy Options, Physics Today, April 2018
- Zia Mian, Stewart Prager, and Frank N. von Hippel, Once More Into the Breach: Physicists Mobilize Again to Counter the Nuclear Threat, Arms Control Today, May 2021
- Zia Mian, Stewart Prager, and Frank von Hippel, Confronting the bomb – Physicists have rallied against nuclear weapons for 80 years — and must do so again, APS News, March 6, 2025