It is in this period that the Pugwash movement had its origins. This brought Soviet and Western scientists together to discuss nuclear weapons and disarmament.59 This attempt to use the internationalism of science to address the common danger presented by nuclear weapons was what Niels Bohr had had in mind in 1944. Talks between scientists from East and West, in both government and unofficial meetings, were now to become an increasingly important element in the search for ways to manage and control the nuclear arms race.
