Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech

For more than forty years the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs have been working for the control reduction, and eventual elimination of nuclear weapons. It was in recognition of these efforts that Pugwash, together with its President, Joseph Rotblat, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995.

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Nobel Peace Prize Citation

 

For more than forty years the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs have been working for the control reduction, and eventual elimination of nuclear weapons. It was in recognition of these efforts that Pugwash, together with its President, Joseph Rotblat, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995.

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