Pugwash, Nova Scotia

Pugwash is small community on the north shore of Nova Scotia, Canada, near the border with New Brunswick. It is built on the exit of the Pugwash River into the Northumberland Strait between Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.

Pugwash is famous was the site of an international congress of scholars organized by Bertrand Russell in 1957, to state their opposition to nuclear weapons. This meeting was a follow-up to an early statement whose signatories had included Albert Einstein and Linus Pauling, the Russell-Einstein Manifesto[?]. The name has since been used for the group in general.

External links:

The Village Of Pugwash Website (http://www.pugwashvillage.com/)