Hiroshima's legacy, future threats and the development of human rights, 63rd Pugwash International Conference of Science and World Affairs, Hiroshima, Japan

Joint conference presentation on the legacy and future threats of nuclear weapons and nuclear catastrophe, and the new human right, proposed by the Airspace Tribunal, to live without physical or psychological threat from above.

The mission of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs is to bring scientific insight and reason to bear on namely, the catastrophic threat posed to humanity by nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction. It was in recognition of it mission to “diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms” that Pugwash and its co-founder, Sir Joseph Rotblat, were awarded the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize.

Drawing its inspiration from the Russell-Einstein Manifesto of 1955, which urged leaders of the world to “think in a new way”: to renounce nuclear weapons, to “remember their humanity” and to find peaceful means for the settlement of all matters of dispute between them.”