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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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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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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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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 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 Conference members meet press after Nagasaki session

Senior members of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs meet the press after its 61st meeting in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 5, 2015. (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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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. (Kyodo)

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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. (Kyodo)