PAGVAŠKE KONFERENCIJE U SVIJETU I HRVATSKA PAGVAŠKA GRUPA
PUGWASH CONFERENCES WORLDWIDE AND THE CROATIAN PUGWASH GROUP

Summary/Abstract: ln the article the author reports on the 40eth anniversary of the Pugwash Movement, which has through international conferences on science and global issues earned affirmation as an important international factor and communication channel amongst scientists. The top priorities of debates and cooperation were nuclear armament issues, nuclear danger and other relevant problems of global development. The Pugwash Movement was especially influential in the period of the cold war, the Berlin crisis, the Cuban crisis, the invasion on Czechoslovakia etc. Based on discussions within the Movement the following international agreements were drafted and signed: on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, the partial ban on nuclear explosion experiments, the treaty banning the use of anti-ballistic missiles, the Convention on biological warfare. Croatian scientists gave an important contribution to the Pugwash Movement through activities and debates on Pugwash issues by gathering round the Eneye/opaedia Moderna and the HAZU Institute for the Philosophy of Science and Peace. In recent years the Croatian Pugwash group has issued appeals to its colleaques worldwide informing them about the events in Croatia and its attempt to take part in the system of European security. Following up the changes in international affairs, the Pugwash Movement now has new priorities in its scope of activities, from environmental issues to the conversion of military industries.

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