Pugwash sits atop a salt deposit measuring 457. 2 m thick and is home to the largest underground salt mine in Atlantic Canada, with shipments from its port, as well as by rail from a facility at Oxford Junction.

Pugwash is famous for being the site of an international conference of scholars organized by Bertrand Russell in 1957, and hosted by Pugwash's native son, steel magnate Cyrus Eaton ( 1883 – 1979 ), at the lodge on property owned by the Pugwash Park Commission located just north of the village.

Visitors entering Pugwash were once greeted by roadside signs announcing that they were entering the " Home of the Thinkers ," but the signs have since been replaced by a newer slogan " World Famous for Peace ".

The switch was made in response to the 1995 awarding of the Nobel Prize to the International Pugwash conferences " for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and in the longer run to eliminate such arms ".

The Crowley Memorial was erected in 1870 at Pugwash, Nova Scotia by the Legislature of Nova Scotia in honour of Mary E. Crowley, who died October 1869, aged 12 years after rescuing her younger brother and sister from a house fire.

* First Conference on Science and World Affairs held at Pugwash, Nova Scotia, organized by Joseph Rotblat.

In parallel with the Pugwash Conferences, Rotblat also joined with Einstein, Oppenheimer, Russell and other concerned scientists to found the World Academy of Art and Science which was proposed by them in the mid-1950s and formally constituted in 1960.

In 1955, Powell, also a member of the World Federation of Scientific Workers, added his signature to the Russell-Einstein Manifesto put forward by Bertrand Russell, Albert Einstein and scientist Joseph Rotblat, and was involved in preparations for the first Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs.

It was founded in 1957 by Joseph Rotblat and Bertrand Russell in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada, following the release of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto in 1955.

In addition to influencing governments by the transmission of the results of these discussions and meetings, Pugwash also may seek to make an impact on the scientific community and on public opinion through the holding of special types of meetings and through its publications.

Formal governance is provided by the Pugwash Council, which serves for five years.

There are approximately fifty national Pugwash groups, organized as independent entities and often supported or administered by national academies of science.

In 1980, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence received a report that the Pugwash Conference was used by Soviet delegates to promote Soviet propaganda.

* The Early Days of Pugwash, by Joseph Rotblat in Physics Today, June 2001.

* Pugwash And The International Treaties On Chemical And Biological Warfare, by J. P. Perry Robinson.

In the early 1980s The Church was owned by Bob Bura and John John Hardwick, the animators who worked on Camberwick Green, Captain Pugwash and Trumpton, who had converted part of it as a studio and later rented space to Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox.

Captain Pugwash is a fictional pirate in a series of British children's comic strips and books created by John Ryan.

The eponymous hero – Captain Horatio Pugwash – sails the high seas in his ship called the Black Pig, ably assisted by cabin boy Tom, pirates Willy and Barnabas, and Master Mate.

The Northumberland Strait is a minor shipping route, with ports such as Pugwash shipping salt, Summerside, Charlottetown, Georgetown and Souris shipping agricultural products and receiving petroleum and aggregate, and Pictou shipping forestry products and general cargo.

Pugwash ( 2006 population: 784 ) is a Canadian village in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.

The village is home to fishing, salt mining, and small-scale manufacturing and is situated on the Northumberland Strait at the mouth of the Pugwash River.

A myth about the town is that the children's cartoon character Captain Pugwash was named after the international organisation that takes its name from the town, but the character, in fact, first appears in 1950, several years before the planning of the first Pugwash conference took place.

Pugwash is also home to many descendants of Highland Scots who immigrated to the region in the 19th century.

The Pugwash area, and indeed the entire north shore of Nova Scotia, is famed for its warm waters and sandy beaches.

The creation of pewter crafts and souvenirs is another important industry in Pugwash.

*" The Stimpsons "-A parody of The Simpsons ( lampooning the fact that the BBC had recently lost the British broadcasting rights to the show to Channel 4 ) in which Homer is really Captain Pugwash, Marge Simpson is Mr Benn in disguise, Bart Simpson is actually Charley the Cat and the sofa is Bagpuss under a blanket.

Patrick Boyer is a past president of the Couchiching Institute on Public Affairs, a member of the Canadian Pugwash Group, and chairman of Pugwash Thinkers ’ Lodge in Nova Scotia.

SPUSA is the U. S. affiliate of International Student / Young Pugwash and the US student affiliate of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, recipients of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize.

SPUSA is the US student affiliate of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, recipients of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize, and the U. S. A. affiliate of the International Student / Young Pugwash.

Another icon is Professor Joseph Rotblat, who was the co-founder of Pugwash and the only scientist to leave the Manhattan Project, refusing to work further on the atomic bomb after the Nazis were defeated.

The mission of Student Pugwash USA is " to promote social responsibility in science and technology.

* Pugwash, Nova Scotia, a village in Cumberland County ( and site of the first Pugwash Conferences )

In 2006, a local group called the Blaine Peace Alliance unsuccessfully solicited City Council support to formalize a sister-city relationship with Pugwash, Nova Scotia, where promotion of world peace had been an ongoing effort for 50 years.

In 1957, the first Pugwash Conference was held in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, bringing together some of the greatest scientific minds to address nuclear weapons issues and the social responsibility of scientists.

Cyrus Eaton, an industrialist and philanthropist, offered on July 13 to finance and host the conference in the town of his birth, Pugwash, Nova Scotia.

The first conference was held at what became known as Thinkers ' Lodge in July 1957 in Pugwash, Nova Scotia.

He was born in Pugwash, Nova Scotia.

A few days after the release, philanthropist Cyrus S. Eaton offered to sponsor a conference — called for in the manifesto — in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Eaton's birthplace.

Instead, Cyrus Eaton, a Canadian industrialist who had known Russell since 1938, offered to finance the conference in his hometown of Pugwash, Nova Scotia.

* Northumberland Links, Pugwash, Nova Scotia

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