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21. Polish Physicists: Marie Curie,
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23. Polish Scientists: Stefan Slopek,
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24. Academics of the Medical College
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25. Polish Refugees: Joseph Rotblat
 
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26. Roblat Nobel gives hope to Free-Vanunu
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21. Polish Physicists: Marie Curie, Joseph Rotblat, Marek Gazdzicki, Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Józef Bem, Johann Rafelski, Isidor Isaac Rabi
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Chapters: Marie Curie, Joseph Rotblat, Marek Gazdzicki, Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Józef Bem, Johann Rafelski, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Wlodzimierz Klonowski, Marian Smoluchowski, Artur Ekert, Michał Heller, Christopher Jargocki, Wojciech Rubinowicz, Kazimierz Fajans, Witelo, André Lichnerowicz, Leopold Infeld, Karol Olszewski, Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Aleksander Zawadzki, Andrzej Trautman, Jan Łopuszański, Aleksander Jabłoński, Jan Sładkowski, Witold Nazarewicz, Janusz Andrzej Zakrzewski, Ludwik Leibler, Edward W. Piotrowski, Wojciech H. Zurek, Andrzej Sołtan, Jan Rzewuski, Stefan Rozental, Konstanty Zakrzewski, Marek Huberath, Mieczysław Wolfke, Wojciech Świętosławski, Szczepan Szczeniowski, August Witkowski, Stanisław Mrozowski, Marian Danysz, Władysław Natanson, Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski, Sylwester Porowski, Jerzy Plebański, Czesław Białobrzeski, Jerzy Pniewski, Witold Milewski, Jan Kazimierz Danysz. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 171. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Marie Skodowska Curie (7 November 1867 4 July 1934) was a physicist and chemist of Polish upbringing and subsequent French citizenship. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity and the first person honored with two Nobel Prizesin physics and chemistry. She was also the first female professor at the University of Paris. She was born Maria Skodowska in Warsaw (then in Vistula Land, Russian Empire; now in Poland) and lived there until she was twenty-four. In 1891 she followed her older sister Bronisawa to study in Paris, where she obtained her higher degrees and conducted her subsequent scientific work. She founded the Curie Institutes in Paris and Warsaw. Her husband Pierre Curie shared her Nobel prize in physics. Her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie and son-in-law, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, also shared a Nobel pri...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=20408 ... Read more


22. Radiation Health Effects Researchers: Alexander Catsch, Karl Zimmer, Hans-Joachim Born, Hermann Joseph Muller, Joseph Rotblat, John Gofman
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Alexander Catsch, Karl Zimmer, Hans-Joachim Born, Hermann Joseph Muller, Joseph Rotblat, John Gofman, Ernest J. Sternglass, David A. Schauer, Edward B. Lewis, Alice Stewart, Christopher Busby, Joseph Gilbert Hamilton, Yury Bandazhevsky, Edward Martell, Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, Commission for Independent Research and Information on Radioactivity, Eugene Saenger. Excerpt:Alexander Catsch (Katsch) (1913 1976 in Karlsruhe ) was a German-Russian medical doctor and radiation biologist. Up to the end of World War II, he worked in Nikolaj Vladimirovich Timefeev-Resovskij s Abteilung für Experimentelle Genetik at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Hirnforschung (KWIH, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research ). He was taken prisoner by the Russians at the close of World War II. Initially, he worked in Nikolaus Riehl s group at Plant No. 12 in Ehlektrostal , but at the end of 1947 was sent to work in Sungul' at a sharshka known under the cover name Ob ekt 0211. At the Sungul' facility, he again worked in biological research department under the direction of Timofeev-Resovskij. When Catsch returned to Germany in the mid-1950s, he fled to the West. He worked at the Biophysikalische Abteilung des Heiligenberg-Instituts and then at the Institut für Strahlenbiologie am Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe . While in Karlsruhe, he was also appointed, in 1962, to the newly created Lehrstuhl für Strahlenbiologie , at the Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe . In West Germany, he developed methods to extract radionucleotides from various organs. Early life Catsch was half-German and half-Russian. Education Catsch was trained as a medical doctor. Career In Germany As early as 1938, Catsch cited his affiliation with the I. Medizinischen Universitätsklinik der Charité ; Charité was a tea... ... Read more


23. Polish Scientists: Stefan Slopek, Chaïm Perelman, Wladyslaw Turowicz, Joseph Rotblat, Edward Kofler, Kazimierz Leski, Adam Skorek
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Chapters: Stefan Ślopek, Chaïm Perelman, Władysław Turowicz, Joseph Rotblat, Edward Kofler, Kazimierz Leski, Adam Skorek, Kazimierz Siemienowicz, John of Głogów, Józef Łukaszewicz, Halszka Osmólska, Marian Massonius, Stanisław Staszic, Max Margules, Witelo, Teresa Maryańska, Leon Piniński, William Blandowski, Józef Kosacki, Zygmunt Szkopiak, Wladyslaw Metanomski, Jolanta Antas, Jerzy Kaźmirkiewicz, Samuel Linde, Tytus Maksymilian Huber, Michał Życzkowski, Janusz Domaniewski, Ernest Tytus Bandrowski, Saturnin Zawadzki, Zygmunt Grudziński, Tadeusz Żyliński, Teofil Simchowicz, Antoni Bolesław Dobrowolski, Bogumiła Lisocka-Jaegermann, Konrad Fiałkowski, Wiktor Ormicki, Józef Grzybowski. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 154. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Professor Stefan lopek was born on December 1, 1914 in Skawa near Kraków and died in Wrocaw on 22 August 1995 and is buried in the Grabiszyski Cemetery in Wrocaw. He was a Polish scientist specializing in clinical microbiology and immunology. He is the great grandson of Józef Juraszek lopek. After he had completed his secondary education in Tarnopol, he started his medical studies at the Faculty of Medicine in Jan Kazimierz University in Lvov, having graduated in May 1939. In 1945, upon presentation of the thesis On modification of Lvov method of serologic examination of syphilis, he was granted a degree of M.D. at the Faculty of Medicine of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In 1948, he was promoted to the rank of associate professor (docent) on the basis of a dissertation within the subject of microbiology and serology. In 1950 he was conferred a title of professor at the Department of Microbiology of the Silesian School of Medicine where he carried on his scientific research and in 1957 got a title of full professor. In 1965 ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=8743227 ... Read more


24. Academics of the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital: Joseph Rotblat
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sir Joseph Rotblat, KCMG, CBE, FRS, (born Józef Rotblat on 4 November 1908, died 31 August 2005) was a Polish-born and British-naturalised physicist. His work on nuclear fallout was a major contribution to the agreement of the Partial Test Ban Treaty. A signatory of the Russell-Einstein manifesto, he was secretary general of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs from its founding until 1973. In conjunction with the Pugwash Conferences, he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995 for their efforts towards nuclear disarmament. Joseph Rotblat was born to a Jewish family in Warsaw, Poland on November 4, 1908 one of seven children (two not surviving child birth). His father Zygmunt built up and ran a nationwide horse drawn carriage business, owned land and bred horses. His early years were spent in what was a prosperous household but circumstances changed at the outbreak of the First World War. Borders were closed and horses requisitioned leading to the failure of the business and poverty. After the end of the War he worked as a domestic electrician in Warsaw and had a growing ambition to become a physicist. Without formal education he won a place in the physics department of the Free University of Poland gaining an MA in 1932 and Doctor of Physics, University of Warsaw, 1938. He held the position of Research Fellow in the Radiation Laboratory of the Scientific Society of Warsaw and became assistant Director of the Atomic Physics Institute of the Free University of Poland in 1937. During this period he married a literature student, Tola Gryn, whom he had met in 1930. Before the outbreak of World War II, he had conducted experiments which showed that in the fission process neutrons were emitted. In early 1939 he envisaged that a large ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=315742 ... Read more


25. Polish Refugees: Joseph Rotblat
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Chapters: Joseph Rotblat. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sir Joseph Rotblat, KCMG, CBE, FRS, (born Józef Rotblat on 4 November 1908, died 31 August 2005) was a Polish-born and British-naturalised physicist. His work on nuclear fallout was a major contribution to the agreement of the Partial Test Ban Treaty. A signatory of the Russell-Einstein manifesto, he was secretary general of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs from its founding until 1973. In conjunction with the Pugwash Conferences, he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995 for their efforts towards nuclear disarmament. Joseph Rotblat was born to a Jewish family in Warsaw, Poland on November 4, 1908 one of seven children (two not surviving child birth). His father Zygmunt built up and ran a nationwide horse drawn carriage business, owned land and bred horses. His early years were spent in what was a prosperous household but circumstances changed at the outbreak of the First World War. Borders were closed and horses requisitioned leading to the failure of the business and poverty. After the end of the War he worked as a domestic electrician in Warsaw and had a growing ambition to become a physicist. Without formal education he won a place in the physics department of the Free University of Poland gaining an MA in 1932 and Doctor of Physics, University of Warsaw, 1938. He held the position of Research Fellow in the Radiation Laboratory of the Scientific Society of Warsaw and became assistant Director of the Atomic Physics Institute of the Free University of Poland in 1937. During this period he married a literature student, Tola Gryn, whom he had met in 1930. Before the outbreak of World War II, he had conducted experiments which showed that in the fission process neutron...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=315742 ... Read more


26. Roblat Nobel gives hope to Free-Vanunu campaign.(Joseph Rotblat; campaign to free Israeli whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu): An article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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From the supplier: Nobel Peace Prize winner Joseph Rotblat has compared Vanunu's sentence for exposing Israel's secret nuclear program to his own career. The Israeli Committee to Free Vanutu is using the comparison in its campaign to convince the government to free the nuclear technician from prison.

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Title: Roblat Nobel gives hope to Free-Vanunu campaign.(Joseph Rotblat; campaign to free Israeli whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu)
Author: Samuel H., Jr. Day
Publication: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1996
Publisher: Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc.
Volume: v52Issue: n1Page: p5(2)

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27. People Associated With the University of Liverpool: Olaf Stapledon, James Chadwick, David Owen, Lord President of the Council, Joseph Rotblat
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Chapters: Olaf Stapledon, James Chadwick, David Owen, Lord President of the Council, Joseph Rotblat, Oliver Joseph Lodge, Jon Snow, Tony Barrell, Steve Voake, Peter Boston, Stephen R. L. Clark, Joseph Proudman, Thomas Cecil Gray, Rosie Cooper, Martin Smith, Rose Heilbron, Bill Parry, Hector Hetherington, C. T. C. Wall, Charles Rees, Ted Robbins, Hugh Stott Taylor, Henry Cohen, 1st Baron Cohen of Birkenhead, Kenneth Wheare, Kenneth Allen, James Drummond Bone, Philip Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme, Lionel Barnett, Francis Danson, William Johnston of Liverpool, Margaret Booth, Gordon Willmer. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 136. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Baron Owen CH PC FKC (born 2 July 1938) is a British politician and previous Chancellor of the University of Liverpool. He was one of the founders of the British Social Democratic Party (SDP). He led the SDP from 1983 to 1987 and the re-formed SDP from 1988 to 1990. He is also known for becoming the youngest person in over forty years to hold the post of British Foreign Secretary (from 1977 to 1979) and as one of the authors of the failed Vance-Owen and Owen-Stoltenberg peace plans offered during the Bosnian War. He sits in the House of Lords as a crossbencher. Owen had long been regarded as a serial resigner. He had quit as Labour's spokesman on defence in 1972 in protest at the Labour leader Harold Wilson's attitude to the EEC; he left the Labour Shadow cabinet over the same issue later; and over unilateral disarmament in November 1980 when Michael Foot became Labour leader. He resigned from the Labour Party when it rejected "one member, one vote" in February 1981. He resigned as Leader of the Social Democratic Party which he had helped to found when the party's rank-and-file membership voted to...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=217415 ... Read more


28. Radiobiologists: Radiation Health Effects Researchers, Alexander Catsch, Karl Zimmer, Hans-Joachim Born, Hermann Joseph Muller, Joseph Rotblat
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Chapters: Radiation Health Effects Researchers, Alexander Catsch, Karl Zimmer, Hans-Joachim Born, Hermann Joseph Muller, Joseph Rotblat, John Gofman, Ernest J. Sternglass, David A. Schauer, Edward B. Lewis, Alice Stewart, Christopher Busby, Joseph Gilbert Hamilton, Yury Bandazhevsky, Edward Martell, Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, Louis Harold Gray, Rainer Kurt Sachs, Commission for Independent Research and Information on Radioactivity, Alexander Hollaender, Eugene Saenger. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 106. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Alexander Catsch (Katsch) (1913 1976 in Karlsruhe) was a German-Russian medical doctor and radiation biologist. Up to the end of World War II, he worked in Nikolaj Vladimirovich Timefeev-Resovskijs Abteilung für Experimentelle Genetik at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Hirnforschung (KWIH, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research). He was taken prisoner by the Russians at the close of World War II. Initially, he worked in Nikolaus Riehls group at Plant No. 12 in Ehlektrostal, but at the end of 1947 was sent to work in Sungul' at a sharshka known under the cover name Obekt 0211. At the Sungul' facility, he again worked in biological research department under the direction of Timofeev-Resovskij. When Catsch returned to Germany in the mid-1950s, he fled to the West. He worked at the Biophysikalische Abteilung des Heiligenberg-Instituts and then at the Institut für Strahlenbiologie am Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe. While in Karlsruhe, he was also appointed, in 1962, to the newly created Lehrstuhl für Strahlenbiologie, at the Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe. In West Germany, he developed methods to extract radionucleotides from various organs. Catsch was half-German and half-Russian. Catsch was trained as a medical doctor. As ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=15098913 ... Read more


29. British Anti-Nuclear Weapons Activists: Bertrand Russell, Freeman Dyson, Harold Pinter, Peter Taaffe, Joseph Rotblat, Walter Wolfgang
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Chapters: Bertrand Russell, Freeman Dyson, Harold Pinter, Peter Taaffe, Joseph Rotblat, Walter Wolfgang, Peggy Duff, Lindis Percy, Marghanita Laski, Joan Ruddock, Bruce Kent, Frank Barnaby, Paul Johns, Pat Arrowsmith, Meg Beresford, D. H. Pennington. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 135. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (10 October 1930 24 December 2008), was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, theatre director, political activist and poet. He was among the most influential British playwrights of modern times. In 2005, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Pinter's writing career spanned over 50 years and produced 29 original stage plays, 27 screenplays, many dramatic sketches, radio and TV plays, poetry, one novel, short fiction, essays, speeches, and letters. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The Caretaker (1959), The Homecoming (1964), and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted to film. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1970), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Trial (1993), and Sleuth (2007). He directed almost 50 stage, television, and film productions and acted extensively in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and others' works. Pinter's dramas often involve strong conflicts between ambivalent characters who struggle for verbal and territorial dominance and for their own versions of the past. Stylistically, these works are marked by theatrical pauses and silences, comedic timing, irony, and menace. Thematically ambiguous, they raise complex issues of individual identity oppressed by social forces, language, and vicissitudes of memory. In 1981, Pinter stated that he was not inclined to write plays explicitly about political subject...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=89530 ... Read more


30. How to get rid of nuclear weapons.(The Vancouver Institute: An Experiment in Public Education)(lecture by Dr Joseph Rotblat at the Vancouver Institute, ... Business Administration and Policy Analysis
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From the supplier: Nobel laureate Dr Joseph Rotblat believes that before considering the steps to be taken in eliminating nuclear weapons, people should consider why they should be gotten rid of in the first place. There are enough nuclear weapons in existence to completely wipe out the human race. It is a unique attribute of the nuclear age that for the first time in the history of its civilization, mankind has acquired the means to destroy itself in one single act. That this ultimate catastrophe has been avoided to date can be attributed more to good luck rather than good management. Although the process of nuclear disarmament has begun, there have been no talks of further reductions. Worse, the nuclear powers still believe that nuclear weapons are necessary for their security. Humankind will continue to be threatened so long as nuclear weapons exist.

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Title: How to get rid of nuclear weapons.(The Vancouver Institute: An Experiment in Public Education)(lecture by Dr Joseph Rotblat at the Vancouver Institute, Mar 1, 1997)(Transcript)
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31. Ending War: The Force of Reason : Essays in Honour of Joseph Rotblat, Nl, Frs
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The year 1945 saw both the dawning of the age of nuclear weapons and the creation of the United Nations for the maintenance of world peace. Compared with the huge and continuing outlays of time and money on research and development of weapons since that date, little effort has been devoted to ways of ridding mankind of war and its armaments. Ending War contains sixteen essays on this topic, written by world renowned political thinkers and scientists. The book provides a historical perspective, and puts forward ideas to be pondered by every citizen. The contributors include Mikhail Gorbachev, who first declared 'A nuclear war cannot be won and must not be fought'; Robert McNamara, US Defense Secretary at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis and of the Vietnam War; and Nobel Peace Prizewinner Joseph Rotblat, the only scientist to resign from the Manhattan Project, where the world's first nuclear weapons were produced. ... Read more


32. Atomic energy : a suvey / edited by J. Rotblat
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33. Pugwash--the first ten years: history of the conferences of science and world affairs / by J. Rotblat
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34. War No More: Eliminating Conflict in the Nuclear Age
by Robert Hinde, Joseph Rotblat
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Never before have so many people worried about the effects of military conflict. At a time when terrorism is opening the way for new forms of warfare worldwide, this book provides a much-needed account of the real dangers we face, and argues that the elimination of weapons of mass destruction and of war are attainable and necessary goals.Written by Nobel Peace prizewinner and former nuclear physicist Joseph Rotblat, and biologist/ psychologist Robert Hinde, War No More provides expert insight into the nature of modern warfare -- including 'weapons of mass destruction'. Examining the key factors that are believed to contribute to conflict, they explain how best to approach a peaceful future. If war is ever to be eliminated, Hinde and Rotblat argue that we must address key issues such as the gap between rich and poor; we must have fully effective arms controls; and above all we must have better education. The authors emphasize the United Nations -- as well as non-governmental organizations, religious groups, and grassroots movements -- also have important parts to play.Joseph Rotblat was involved in the creation of the first atom bomb, but left the project during the war, when it became clear that Nazi Germany was not building its own bomb. Since the end of the Second World War he has dedicated his life to campaigning against nuclear weapons and co-founded the Pugwash conferences. Robert Hinde was a pilot in World War 2, is now a Cambridge University Professor and has written extensively on war and strategies for peace. ... Read more

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4-0 out of 5 stars World Citizenship As Both an Option and Obligation in Averting Nuclear Warfare
Last year marked the 50th anniversary of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto that sought to put the world on guard about the dangers of the hydrogen bomb. The last surviving signatory to the Russell-Einstein Manifesto was Joseph Rotblat, who died August 31, 2005. In 1995, Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash Conferences were awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.
During World War II, Joseph Rotblat participated in the Manhattan Project to develop an atomic bomb. An Encyclopædia Britannica article on his Nobel prize explains that "Although he was uncomfortable about participating in the creation of an atomic bomb, Rotblat initially believed that the weapon would be used to deter only a German threat. After learning in 1944 that it would be used to contain the Soviet Union, a World War II ally, he left the project...." Upon returning to England in 1945, Rotblat left defense work for medicine. He served as founding secretary general and later as president of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, which began in 1957, and at which key scientists and other people from different countries could confer about the peril of nuclear weapons facing the world. In his capacity as a physics professor and a medical physicist at St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College (1950-76) both part of the University of London, Rotblat was dedicated to directing attention toward the biological hazards of nuclear radiation and the severity of fallout from atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons.
Robert Hinde, CBE of Cambridge University, is the author of many books and articles in psychology. He earned a degree at Oxford University in 1950. In 2003, Robert Hinde and Joseph Rotblat together published their book, War No More.
The book addresses the planet's current state in terms of weapons of mass destruction. It features many great tables, or charts, pertaining to matters ranging from the varying levels of the super-powers' nuclear warhead stockpiles to the principal nuclear arms control treaties to estimates of military deaths in individual wars during the last sixty years.
Since this book is an earnest endeavor to address in a thorough and organized fashion the issue of weapons of mass destruction, many of its most fundamental prescriptions are bound to sound basic to the point of seeming somewhat banal. To be sure, the authors acknowledge that "Any attempt to discuss ways of preventing war must address very basic issues, and in so doing lays itself open to accusations of mushy idealism." In War No More, the authors have clearly opted for erring in the direction of invoking moral truisms as a small price to pay if there is even the slightest chance of their contributing to a discussion prompting the global community to eventually compel the world's political leaders to heed such moral considerations. They also make the interesting point that, in the prevention and alleviation of conflict, "Often the success of such efforts may be unknown to the wider world just because the criterion of success is simply that nothing happens."
In any event, Hinde and Rotblat urge their readers to understand the absolute need to abolish war if humanity is to endure in this nuclear age. Their position is that "the very possession of nuclear weapons is immoral. Their enormous destructive power, inflicted on civilians even more than on the military, would make their use unforgiveable [sic]." The authors expressly credit Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein with having taken the initiative for international action on this front. And as was the view of Russell and Einstein fifty years earlier, Hinde and Rotblat proclaim in their book that "The only solution is international agreement on the total abolition of nuclear weapons."
The Pugwash Movement was an outgrowth of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto. The original goal of the Pugwash movement had been the elimination of weapons of mass destruction and war as such. From its inception, the movement was sidetracked by its immediate mission of preventing the Cold War from becoming a hot war. In the wake of the Cold War, Pugwash's efforts were able to be redirected toward its original objectives of averting war as such.
Hinde and Rotblat concede the ease with which people can be pessimistic about the prospects of abolishing war. However, the formidable challenge posed by such a task is deemed "no excuse for inaction." They cite historic instances in which humanity has overcome the apparently impossible, and they stress the urgency both of identifying war's causes (with a view to eliminating them) and of developing alternative means of resolving conflicts. Not only weapons of mass destruction but even conventional weapons of war are continually becoming more devastating. And the current state of technology renders wars much less feasible to contain, or isolate.
There is discussion of how wars come in various forms and can elude exact definition. Wars' causes, as a result, are no less diverse and difficult to pinpoint. In any case, Hinde and Rotblat are of the view that there is no scientific basis for concluding that war is an inevitable part of human societies' conduct.
Of course, a sole, indispensable, common denominator to all wars is the availability of weaponry.For centuries, societies have formulated their foreign policy in the light of the Roman dictum "If you want peace, prepare for war." However, as Bertrand Russell warned the world in 1916, "when the means of offense exist, even though their original purpose may have been defensive, the temptation to use them is likely, sooner or later, to prove overwhelming." Hinde and Rotblat discuss how "during the Cold War years there was a general assumption in the West--still widely accepted today--that the possession of nuclear weapons prevented a Soviet military attack. This is one of the deliberately propagated myths of the Cold War. Careful studies by reputable historians from the West have found no evidence for this assertion." The authors also reflect on how "Thousands of these [nuclear] weapons are kept in the arsenals, presumably for deterrence purposes,...but sooner or later they will be used deliberately. There is a historical precedent for this: the reason the Allies began developing the atom bomb during the Second World War was specifically to prevent its use by Hitler, yet nuclear weapons were used against Japan as soon as they were made." In fine, the doctrine of deterrence is part of the problem rather than the solution.
The authors argue that humans are not essentially aggressive or war-prone, but they are essentially disposed to aggressive self-defense in response to warlike conditions. "Often secular ideals of patriotism and territorial rights are closely interwoven with religious ideals, so that support for the `Just War' is derived from a mixture of the sacred and the secular." To be sure, religious fervor is certainly conducive to warfare, and "Religious labels are especially dangerous in that they both legitimize war and portray it as a sacred endeavour." In addition to people's identification with religious labels comes their indignation and vengeance stemming from the perceived mistreatment of their ancestors, which facilitates conflict.
According to Hinde and Rotblat, people are clearly all too susceptible to political, religious, and ethnic manipulation when it comes to motivating them to support wars. Moreover, the vested interests of the military-industrial-scientific complex are geared toward anything but the prevalence of peace. It is also noteworthy that, as far as the typical citizen's reaction to war is concerned, the sense of "duty" looms increasingly large as one traces the history of warfare from pre-agricultural communities to modern ones.
In the 1980s, the nuclear physicist Edward Teller persuaded Ronald Reagan to pursue space-based ballistic missile defense systems. The Pugwash movement criticized this Strategic Defense Initiative on two counts. First of all, no technology is completely effective. Secondly, since anti-ballistic missiles are more expensive to manufacture than offensive missiles, a simple increase in the volume of offensive missiles would be the predictable upshot. The movement to develop ballistic missile defense systems subsided after Reagan but was considered with some seriousness by the Clinton administration when the U.S. Senate's Republican majority was championing it. With the George W. Bush administration, however, the zeal for promoting such systems has been rekindled.
Hinde and Rotblat discuss how "The tragedy of Rwanda was due in part to the feeling that it was a far-away country, and that happenings there were not so important to the West. From some perspectives, this is a matter that may have grown worse since the end of the Cold War because, while the international political climate was still a major determinant of international politics, wars were mostly proxy wars for the two major power blocs. With the end of the Cold War, the major powers have simply lost interest."
Hinde and Rotblat discuss how, at one time, over 40 per cent of people ranked nuclear weapons among the most crucial issues. Since the end of the Cold War, though, the percentage of people associating this urgency with nuclear weapons has plummeted to about 1 per cent. There is a grim irony here, and the authors express their grave concern with the turn that the George W. Bush administration has caused things to take:
At the time of writing, in 2003, the general world situation is far from being a happy one; indeed, as far as the nuclear peril is concerned it is much worse than would have been expected 14 years after the end of the nuclear arms race. With the end of the Cold War, and the termination of the ideological divide between East and West, the imminent danger of a nuclear holocaust has diminished, but it has not gone away; and now it is on the rise again.
To a large extent this is a result of the policies of the only remaining superpower, the United States of America, particularly those of the George W. Bush administration. Since the end of the Cold War, there has been an awesome increase in the military strength of the USA. Making use of the latest advances in science and achievements in technology, and supported by astronomical budgets, the United States has become the greatest military power that ever existed, exceeding in military potential all other nations combined. And it shows every sign of intending to use this power to impose its policies on the rest of the world. Many see those policies as threatening the basic guidelines of a civilized society: morality in the conduct of world affairs and adherence to the rules of international law.
The Iraq war of 2003 was an illustration of these developments and a portent of the shape of things to come (p. 211).

War No More denounces as a sham the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty signed by Bush and Putin, in May 2002. It is criticized as lacking a timetable for removing warheads during the treaty's duration, requiring that the removed warheads be stored rather than destroyed, and providing for the withdrawal of either side from the treaty on three months' notice. Further reductions in the arsenals is not at all addressed. "A far cry from total nuclear disarmament envisaged under the NPT."
The authors express their hope that increased globalization will prompt countries to adopt a more long-term view and appreciate the eventually global aftershocks of war anywhere. Both the advantages and disadvantages of science and technology's uses have made world citizenship both an option and an obligation. "There is the need for a new educational process that teaches loyalty to humankind; the need to preserve the human species and the continuation of our civilization."
The good news is that democracies are less prone to warfare and that democracies are on the rise as a percentage of the world's political systems. The bad news, though, is that, however necessary it can seem to retaliate against perpetrators of violent deeds, the fact of the matter is that violence begets violence. Consequently, it is prudent to understand the circumstances prompting different groups to terrorist activities and to focus on such factors with a view to ameliorating the predicaments that potential terrorists perceive as their afflictions.
The book acknowledges the proper place of grassroots activities in directing political leaders' attention, along with that of non-governmental organizations and religious groups. In the case of religious organizations, though, Hinde and Rotblat are certainly wise to the fact that "religious differences are often seen as a cause of war, and the brotherhood inherent in sharing a religious faith is no bar to war between two countries...."
Hinde and Rotblat argue that all countries in possession of nuclear weapons, including the original five, must get rid of them as soon as they can. The Republic of South Africa is commended for having relinquished its nuclear weapons and its capacity to make them. And Sweden, Brazil and Argentina are praised for having refrained from developing nuclear weapons in the light of their own convictions that the world will be safer as a result. Such welcome conditions, though, could very well be unsettled and jeopardized ifthe current nuclear weapon states persist in ignoring the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Predictably, the authors see our salvation in an empowered and improved United Nations serving as the world's policemen. Their ideal is that armaments would be eventually possessed by just the U.N. and, possibly, some authorized intra-state police forces.
The authors are, however, under no delusions concerning the United Nations' strength, and they acknowledge that presently the U.N. may act as a sort of brake but it cannot force cooperation. While they credit the U.N. with some successes, they are keenly aware of the U.N.'s shortcomings, and they propound concrete measures for its reform. They explain much of the problem as being individual nations' resentment towards any infringements on their national sovereignty with the all too likely consequence of a single nation enjoying hegemony. They also see much of the solution as lying in the areas of reforming the U.N.'s internal structure by, for example, making the Security Council more representativeand eliminating the veto.
On an optimistic note, Hinde and Rotblat reflect on how, no thanks to the United States, democratic values and respect for international law are becoming more prevalent, as is evidenced by the jurisdictionof the International Criminal Court and the success of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Along with one of War No More's overarching messages being that the international community would do well to promote democracy, the authors make the point that, on account of democracies' experiences with handling disputes domestically, democracies are more likely to excel at handling disputes internationally. Democracies are the form of government most likely to set good examples and precedents in the way of societal progress, human rights, and arms control. "In recent years, alliances of democracies, notably the European Union, have acted with a mandate from the United Nations to prevent war in or between other countries."
It is urged that increased attention should be paid to early warning signs of instability. This both gives more powerful nations plenty of time to prepare for the provision of "peace-keeping troops" and also enhances the chances of nipping the less powerful countries' problems in the bud. In the wake of the Rwanda tragedy, the Carnegie Commission and the Commander of the UN Mission ascertained that an April 1994 intervention of 5,000 truly competent troops could have prevented much of the slaughter. However, the Organization for African Unity, NATO, and NATO's members were unable and/or unwilling to provide the requisite numbers of troops.The book then discusses proper modes of third-party nations intervening in conflicts. And Hinde and Rotblat counsel against any covert interventions, such as those perpetrated by the CIA in South and Central America. For the furtive nature of such missions is bound to make the intervener's conduct seem self-serving.
Finally, in a wistful vein, Hinde and Rotblat ponder how:
The threat of the extinction of the human race hangs over our heads like the Sword of Damocles. We cannot allow the miraculous products of billions of years of evolution to come to an end. We are beholden to our ancestors, to all the previous generations, for bequeathing to us the enormous cultural riches that we enjoy. It is our sacred duty to pass them on to future generations. The continuation of the human species must be ensured. We owe an allegiance to humanity (p. 214). In the course of many thousands of years, the human species has established a great civilization; ...it has created the magnificent edifice of science. It is indeed the supreme irony that the very intellectual achievements of humankind have provided the tools of self-destruction, in a social system ready to contemplate such destruction (p. 217).


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35. Towards a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World: Proceedings of the Forty-Fifth Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs Hiroshima, Japan 23-29 July, 1995
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In this volume, scientists write on the desirability and feasibility of eliminating nuclear weapons, including reflections 50 years after the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by atomic bombs. The following topics are discussed: strategies for preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; ways and means to monitor and control the arms trade; the need for global governance; specific aspects of security in the Asia-Pacific region; and interactions between the problems of meeting the world's energy demand, reducing environmental pollution, and promoting sustainable development. ... Read more


36. New Scientist Volume 22 No 394
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37. Science and Nuclear Weapons: Where Do We Go from Here? (The Blackaby Papers)
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38. Remember Your Humanity: Proceedings of the 47th Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs
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The Pugwash Conferences bring together, from around the world, scientists, other scholars, and individuals experienced in government, diplomacy, and the military, and concerned with reducing the danger of armed conflict and seeking co-operative solutions to global problems lying at the intersection of science and world affairs. The Pugwash Movement is an expression of the awareness of the social and moral duty of scientists to help to prevent and to overcome the actual and potential harmful effects of scientific and technological innovations, and to promote the use of science and technology for the purpose of peace. In this volume, scientists and scholars from more than 30 countries write on a broad range of issues, including the abolition of nuclear weapons; the implementation and strengthening of the regimes outlawing chemical and biological weapons; conventional disarmament; creation of a world without war; environmental sustainability and security; an integrated approach to development and security; creation of security in the Asia-Pacific region and in the Middle East; education for world citizenship; and the social responsibility of scientists. ... Read more


39. Remembering Bernie: Bernard Feld, who witnessed the beginning of the nuclear age, became an ardent, indefatigable champion of peace. (includes related ... from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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From the supplier: Three associates remember the late nuclear physicist Bernard T. Feld, a member of the Manhattan Project that developed the first atomic bomb. Feld became a peace advocate who believed that that peace could be promoted by promoting discussion among scientists.

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Title: Remembering Bernie: Bernard Feld, who witnessed the beginning of the nuclear age, became an ardent, indefatigable champion of peace. (includes related editorial by Feld) (Obituary)
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40. Science and world affairs: A history of the Pugwash Conferences
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