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[Breaking News]Anti-nuke international conference in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan, Nov. 1 Kyodo - Hussain Al-Shahristani, president of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize, registers his name at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Nov. 1, 2025, ahead of the opening of the 63rd conference later in the day. (Kyodo)

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Pugwash conferences president

Hussain Al-Shahristani, president of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, speaks at a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Nov. 7, 2025.

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Pugwash conferences president

Hussain Al-Shahristani, president of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, speaks at a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Nov. 7, 2025.

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Anti-nuke international conference in Hiroshima

Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs President Hussain Al-Shahristani (C) and Secretary General Karen Hallberg (L) hold a press conference following the closing ceremony of the group's 63rd meeting in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Nov. 5, 2025.

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Anti-nuke international conference in Hiroshima

Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs President Hussain Al-Shahristani (R) and Secretary General Karen Hallberg hold a press conference following the closing ceremony of the group's 63rd meeting in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Nov. 5, 2025.

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Anti-nuke international conference in Hiroshima

Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs President Hussain Al-Shahristani (R) and Secretary General Karen Hallberg hold a press conference following the closing ceremony of the group's 63rd meeting in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Nov. 5, 2025.

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Anti-nuke international conference in Hiroshima

Hussain Al-Shahristani, president of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, speaks at a press conference following the closing ceremony of its 63rd meeting in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Nov. 5, 2025.

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Anti-nuke international conference in Hiroshima

Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs President Hussain Al-Shahristani (R) and Secretary General Karen Hallberg hold a press conference following the closing ceremony of the group's 63rd meeting in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Nov. 5, 2025.

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Anti-nuke international conference in Hiroshima

Hussain Al-Shahristani, president of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, speaks at a press conference following the closing ceremony of its 63rd meeting in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Nov. 5, 2025.

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Anti-nuke international conference in Hiroshima

The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs holds the closing ceremony of its 63rd meeting in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Nov. 5, 2025.

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Anti-nuke international conference in Hiroshima

Hussain Al-Shahristani, president of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, speaks at a press conference following the closing ceremony of its 63rd meeting in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Nov. 5, 2025.

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Anti-nuke international conference in Hiroshima

Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs President Hussain Al-Shahristani (C) and Secretary General Karen Hallberg (L) hold a press conference following the closing ceremony of the group's 63rd meeting in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Nov. 5, 2025.

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Anti-nuke international conference in Hiroshima

The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs holds the closing ceremony of its 63rd meeting in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Nov. 5, 2025.

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Anti-nuke international conference in Hiroshima

The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs holds the closing ceremony of its 63rd meeting in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Nov. 5, 2025.

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Anti-nuke international conference in Hiroshima

Hussain Al-Shahristani, president of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, speaks at a press conference following the closing ceremony of its 63rd meeting in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Nov. 5, 2025.

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Anti-nuke international conference in Hiroshima

The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize, holds the opening ceremony of its 63rd meeting in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Nov. 1, 2025.

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Anti-nuke international conference in Hiroshima

Hussain Al-Shahristani, president of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize, registers his name at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Nov. 1, 2025, ahead of the opening of the 63rd conference later in the day.

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Anti-nuke international conference in Hiroshima

Hussain Al-Shahristani, president of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize, speaks during the opening ceremony of the 63rd conference in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Nov. 1, 2025.

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Anti-nuke international conference in Hiroshima

Hussain Al-Shahristani, president of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize, speaks during the opening ceremony of the 63rd conference in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Nov. 1, 2025.

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Anti-nuke international conference in Hiroshima

Hussain Al-Shahristani, (5th from L) president of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize, visits Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Nov. 1, 2025, ahead of the opening of the 63rd conference later in the day.

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Anti-nuke international conference in Hiroshima

Hussain Al-Shahristani (C), president of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize, poses for a photo along with Secretary General Karen Hallberg (R) at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Nov. 1, 2025, ahead of the opening of the 63rd conference later in the day.

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Anti-nuke international conference in Hiroshima

Hussain Al-Shahristani, (front, R) president of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize, lays a wreath at the cenotaph at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Nov. 1, 2025, ahead of the opening of the 63rd conference later in the day.

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Anti-nuke international conference in Hiroshima

Hussain Al-Shahristani, (R) president of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize, lays a wreath at the cenotaph at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Nov. 1, 2025, ahead of the opening of the 63rd conference later in the day. Standing next to him is Secretary General Karen Hallberg.

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Anti-nuke international conference in Hiroshima

Hussain Al-Shahristani, (C) president of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize, poses for a photo at the cenotaph at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Nov. 1, 2025, ahead of the opening of the 63rd conference later in the day. Standing to his right is Secretary General Karen Hallberg. ==Kyodo

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Anti-nuke international group head in Hiroshima

Karen Hallberg (C), secretary general of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize, poses for a photo during a visit to Hiroshima, western Japan, on June 27, 2025. Standing next to her is Hiroshima Gov. Hidehiko Yuzaki (2nd from right in photograph).

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Anti-nuke international group head in Hiroshima

Karen Hallberg (R), secretary general of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize, holds a press conference in Hiroshima, western Japan, on June 27, 2025. Sitting next to her is atomic bomb survivor Keiko Ogura.

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Anti-nuke international group head in Hiroshima

Karen Hallberg (R), secretary general of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize, shakes hands with atomic bomb survivor Keiko Ogura during a visit to Hiroshima, western Japan, on June 27, 2025.

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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-inspired Nobel Peace Prize winner Rotblat dies

LONDON, England - Joseph Rotblat, the celebrated antinuclear campaigner and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, whose efforts were inspired by the atomic-bombing of Hiroshima, has died, his office said Sept. 1. He was 96. Photo shows Rotblat offering a wreath at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima in July 1995 as a representative of delegates to the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.

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Pugwash conference ends with renewed call for nuclear-free world

HIROSHIMA, Japan - The 55th Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs Scientists wraps up a five-day conference in Hiroshima on July 27 with a renewed warning on the dangers of nuclear weapons including possible nuclear terrorism and calls for a nuclear-free world.

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Pugwash conference ends with renewed call for nuclear-free world

HIROSHIMA, Japan - M.S. Swaminathan, president of the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs Scientists, speaks at the end of the conference's five-day meeting in Hiroshima on July 27. He underscored the need for nuclear weapon states to strongly achieve nuclear abolition.

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Annual conference on nuke abolition opens in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Participants in the 55th Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs visit the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on July 23. About 170 scientists and academics from 40 countries took part in the five-day conference.

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Pugwash head warns over nuke terrorism

HIROSHIMA, Japan - M.S. Swaminathan, President of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Hiroshima on July 20. He warned that the world today faces a very serious danger of possible terrorist attacks using nuclear weapons.

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IAEA's ElBaradei calls for resumption of 6-way talks

SEOUL, South Korea - International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohamed ElBaradei delivers a speech at the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs at a hotel in Seoul on Oct. 6. ElBaradei called for a resumption of six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear ambitions.

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Pugwash head warns over nuke terrorism

HIROSHIMA, Japan - M.S. Swaminathan, President of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Hiroshima on July 20. He warned that the world today faces a very serious danger of possible terrorist attacks using nuclear weapons. (Kyodo)

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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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Salehi gives speech at Pugwash Conference

Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran's vice president and head of the country's Atomic Energy Organization, gives a speech at the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs on Nov. 4, 2015, in Nagasaki. The southwestern Japanese city hosted the conference for the first time in 2015, which marks the 70th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pugwash confab of scientists ends with call for eliminating nukes

Participants in the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs in Japan's atomic-bombed city of Nagasaki celebrate as the declaration is issued on Nov. 5, 2015, the last day of the meeting, which calls on all nuclear states to eliminate atomic weapons and nonnuclear states that depend on nuclear deterrence to change their security policies. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Salehi gives speech at Pugwash Conference

Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran's vice president and head of the country's Atomic Energy Organization, gives a speech at the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs on Nov. 4, 2015, in Nagasaki. The southwestern Japanese city hosted the conference for the first time in 2015, which marks the 70th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Last day of Pugwash Conference in Nagasaki

Photo taken Nov. 5, 2015, in Nagasaki, Japan, shows the last day's session of the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs. The southwestern Japanese city hosted the conference for the first time in 2015, which marks the 70th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nobel laureate Shimomura gives speech at Pugwash Conference

Osamu Shimomura (R), a 2008 Nobel laureate in chemistry, gives a speech at the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs on Nov. 3, 2015, in Nagasaki. Shimomura, who was in a city adjacent to Nagasaki when the atomic bomb was dropped on Aug. 9, 1945, said the attack changed his view of life. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Princeton Univ. professor attends Pugwash Conference

Frank von Hippel, professor at Princeton University, gives a speech at the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs on Nov. 3, 2015, in Nagasaki. The southwestern Japanese city is hosting the conference for the first time in 2015, which marks the 70th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-lower house speaker Kono criticizes Abe gov't

Yohei Kono (far R), former House of Representatives speaker, gives a speech during a dinner at the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs on Nov. 3, 2015, in the atomic-bombed Japanese city of Nagasaki. Referring to the security policies of the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Kono said they are "not in line with the path toward termination of wars." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Doctor who survived atomic bombing speaks at Pugwash Conference

Masao Tomonaga, honorary director of the Japanese Red Cross Nagasaki Genbaku Hospital, speaks at the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 1, 2015. Tomonaga, 72, is a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945. He told the conference that an atomic bomb is "a weapon that targets genes," based on his experience of treating many "hibakusha" survivors suffering from leukemia. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Int'l confab of scientists begins in Nagasaki to seek nuke abolition

Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs participants visit the Nagasaki Peace Park, a memorial to the tens of thousands killed by the atomic bombing of the Japanese city by the United States in August 1945, before the start of a five-day meeting. About 190 scientists and nuclear experts from some 40 countries are gathering for the conference to push for the abolition of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. (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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Japanese physicist Konuma long involved in Pugwash confab

Physicist Michiji Konuma, an 84-year-old former Pugwash Council member, speaks in an interview on Sept. 11, 2015. The 61st Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs was held in Nagasaki in November 2015. (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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Man in news: Mongolian ex-diplomat represents home state at Pugwash meet

Enkhsaikhan Jargalsaikhan, a retired diplomat who represented Mongolia at the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs in Nagasaki, speaks in an interview in the southwestern Japanese city on Nov. 4, 2015. It was Jargalsaikhan's first time to participate in the conference, and Mongolia's first in 30 years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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A-bomb survivor says Pugwash confab lacks concreteness

Photo taken on Oct. 10, 2015, shows Nagasaki atomic-bomb survivor Hideo Tsuchiyama, 90. He said on Nov. 6, 2015, that the outcome of a session of the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs in the southwestern Japan city lacked specific detail. The former Nagasaki University president did appreciate the fact that a call for the abolition of nuclear weapons was issued from the A-bombed city in a Pugwash declaration. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo