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 is the episode 'Pirate of the Year' where Pugwash enters the "Pirate of the Year contest 1775" A number of spin-off books were written by John Ryan, who in the 1980s drew three new Pugwash comic-strip storybooks: "The Secret of the San Fiasco", "The Battle of Bunkum Bay" and "The Quest for the Golden Handshake". A related book by John Ryan was "Admiral Fatso Fitzpugwash", in which it is revealed that Pugwash had a medieval ancestor who was First Sea Lord, but who was terrified of water. Prior to the 1974–1975 series, the first generation of "Captain Pugwash" episodes were