Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs on local water resources and biology. Pugwash does not have formal membership. All participants take part in their individual capacities and not as representatives of any organization, institution or government. Anyone who has attended a meeting is considered a "Pugwashite". There are more than 3,500 "Pugwashites" worldwide. As the birthplace of the Pugwash movement, the Thinkers' Lodge was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 2008. The Jubilee 62nd Pugwash Conference devoted to nuclear disarmament will be held in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, in 2017. The conference will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first Pugwash Conference, held
Captain Pugwash filmed in black and white and were first shown on British TV between 1957 and 1966. These early episodes numbered a total of 87 episodes, with the producers using the production codes CP001 to CP087; the later 30 episodes, from the second generation of the series, were produced in colour between 16 September 1974 and 11 July 1975. "Captain Pugwash" was also sold to various overseas TV stations, including Australia's ABC Television. There the show was screened during weekday afternoons in the 1970s and '80s. The rights to "Captain Pugwash" were purchased by The Britt Allcroft Company, which since 1997