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Keeper of the nuclear conscience : the life and work of Joseph Rotblat / Andrew Brown.
Van Pelt Library QC774.R67 B76 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Andrew, 1950 August 12-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rotblat, Joseph, 1908-2005.
- Rotblat, Joseph.
- Nuclear physicists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Nuclear physicists.
- Nuclear physicists--Poland--Biography.
- Pacifists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Pacifists.
- Nobel Prize winners.
- Great Britain.
- Poland.
- Nobel Prize winners--Great Britain--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 347 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- After Hiroshima, the world woke up to the reality of nuclear weapons. Any future war risked their use and the world was dominated by rival superpowers. A number of scientists felt repelled by the possibility, and the fact that science could have been harnessed to develop such weapons of mass destruction.
- Notable among them was the Polish-born physicist, Jósef Rotblat. At a time of personal despair, he had left the Manhattan Project months before the atom bombs were dropped. He did not turn his back on science, but instead resolved to promote social responsibility within science. This biography is the story of Rotblat, and also of his creation, the hugely influential Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, with which he shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995.
- The story is played out in the frightening and turbulent context of the Second World War, its aftermath, the Cold War, and the tensions that emerged with the collapse of the old order. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Growing Up in Warsaw 1
- 2 Liverpool 21
- 3 Paradise Denied 43
- 4 The Bitterness of Victory 59
- 5 Stepping off the Atomic Train 81
- 6 Bart's, Bikini, and the BBC 95
- 7 Remember your Humanity 119
- 8 Pugwash 135
- 9 Of Mice and Moscow 149
- 10 Towards a Test Ban 165
- 11 Eggheads and Warheads 191
- 12 Years of Eclipse 205
- 13 Latent Progress 221
- 14 Reaching for the Impossible? 245
- 15 An Old Man in a Hurry 267.
- ISBN:
- 9780199586585
- 0199586586
- OCLC:
- 751831996
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