After years of backsliding on nuclear-weapons proliferation by the world's superpowers, President Barack Obama has stated that he intends to "make the goal of eliminating allrnnuclear weapons a central element" in nuclear policy. His recently appointed chief science adviser, physicist John Holdren, spent ten years as chairman of the executive committee for the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, the peripatetic annual meeting of scientists and statesmen to discuss ways to control nuclear weapons. It is named after the Canadian village of Pugwash, Nova Scotia, where its first conference was heldrnfirst conference was held under the sponsorship of a wealthy Canadian philanthropist, Cyrus Eaton.
展开▼
