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Pugwash Conference president lectures in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - Jayantha Dhanapala, president of the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs promoting the abolition of nuclear weapons and wars, speaks of a global denuclearization trend in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Sept. 18, 2014.

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Hiroshima, Nagasaki urge U.N. to help create nuke-free world

NEW YORK, United States - Nagasaki Mayor Itcho Ito (C), along with Hiroshi Morimoto (L), deputy Hiroshima mayor, delivers an appeal to Jayantha Dhanapala (R), U.N. deputy secretary general in charge of disarmament, urging the United Nations to help bring about a nuclear weapons-free world. Ito and Morimoto visited New York to attend the U.N. conference to review the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

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U.N. disarmament conference opens in Nagasaki

U.N. Undersecretary General Jayantha Dhanapala opens a disarmament conference in Nagasaki on Nov. 24. The four-day conference, sponsored by the New York-based U.N. Department for Disarmament Affairs, will be devoted solely to the abolition of nuclear weapons.

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Pugwash confab ends with call for eliminating nuclear weapons

Jayantha Dhanapala of Sri Lanka (R), president of the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, speaks at a news conference in Nagasaki, Japan, which was devastated by the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing, on Nov. 5, 2015, after the end of the five-day meeting. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pugwash Conferences chief meets with Japanese foreign minister

Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (L) talks with Jayantha Dhanapala of Sri Lanka (R), president of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Oct. 29, 2015. The Pugwash Conferences will hold a world convention from Nov. 1 to 5 in the southwestern Japanese city of Nagasaki, which was devastated by an atomic bomb dropped by the United States 70 years ago in World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pugwash confab head hopes 2015 declaration will guide young scientists

Jayantha Dhanapala, president of the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, speaks in an interview in the southwestern Japanese city of Nagasaki on Nov. 6, 2015. Dhanapala said he hopes the Nagasaki Declaration issued at the meeting, which touched on the sufferings of atomic bombing survivors for the first time and urged world leaders to "heed their call now," will serve as a guideline for young scientists. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pugwash confab chief gives Nagasaki replica of Nobel Peace Prize medal

Jayantha Dhanapala (L), president of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, hands a replica of the Nobel Peace Prize medal to Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue in the southwestern Japanese city on Nov. 1, 2015. The international network of scholars working for the abolition of nuclear weapons, which won the prize in 1995, held a meeting in Nagasaki, devastated by the 1945 atomic bombing. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese high school students meet Pugwash Conference president

Japanese high school students, including 12 "peace ambassadors," meet Jayantha Dhanapala (not in photo), president, the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Oct. 29, 2015, to discuss the abolition of nuclear weapons. The conference will be held in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 1-5. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo