Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience: The Life and Work of Joseph Rotblat 1st Edition

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As Andrew Brown shows in Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience, Joseph Rotblat's life--from an impoverished childhood in war-torn Warsaw to an active old age that brought honors and public recognition, including the Nobel Peace Prize--is a compelling human story in itself. What gives it added significance is Rotblat's single-minded dedication to peaceful causes, particularly his pursuit of nuclear disarmament.

Here is the first full biography of Joseph Rotblat based on complete access to his private papers. Brown describes how Rotblat overcame poverty and anti-Semitism to become a nuclear physicist, becoming a key member of the British team that worked on the atomic bomb in England and with the Manhattan Project in America. But Rotblat, appalled by the use of atomic bombs against the Japanese and deeply depressed by the brutal death of his wife in the Holocaust, soon became one of the prime architects of the anti-nuclear movement. The book describes his post-war activities under the shadow of Britain's nuclear program, his first political and media encounters, his exposure of the hazards of radioactive fallout, and his friendship with Bertrand Russell. Brown shows that Pugwash, the anti-nuclear group that Rotblat helped form, eventually established an invaluable back-channel link that penetrated the Iron Curtain. Indeed, it was a Pugwash office that facilitated the first meeting between Gorbachev and Reagan. Gorbachev's security advisers were heavily influenced by Pugwash ideas, especially the concept of non-offensive defense in Europe.

Rotblat dedicated the last six decades of his life to peaceful causes and to efforts to uphold the ethical application of science. In this engaging biography, we discover a great man whose profound conscience shaped his life and work, and left an important legacy for future generations.

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"an excellent biography" -Jeremy Bernstein, The Wall Street Journal

"Radiation oncologist Andrew Brown's fine biography, Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience, chronicles a life spanning almost the entire twentieth century and moulded by its turmoil and horrors...Brown's balanced and comprehensive biography is welcome. Rotblat's inspiring life-against a backdrop of tragedy and hardship, with idealism but without illusions-deserves to be better known." - Martin Rees, Nature

"Brown's use of numerous interviews, including one with Rotblat himself, make for compelling reading. Overall, Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience is a fine work that lucidly depicts the challenges faced by Rotblat and his Pugwash colleagues as they relentlessly pursued a more peaceful world." - Edwin Lyma, New Scientist

About the Author

Andrew Brown is Research Associate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is the author of The Neutron and the Bomb: a Biography of Sir James Chadwick and J. D. Bernal: the Sage of Science.

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Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (March 2, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0199586586
ISBN-13: 978-0199586585
Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 0.7 x 5.6 inches
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It is better for peace in the world if this is widely read

By SURENDRA KUMAR SAGAR on September 14, 2015

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REVIEW OF ``KEEPER OF THE NUCLEAR CONSCIENCE``.. BY ANDREW BROWN

It is better for peace in the world if this is widely read.
Its a privilege to be the first – on Amazon - to review this book of extraordinary significance.
Andrew Brown has written a masterpiece about the life and times of Joseph Rotblat, a nuclear scientist par excellence, whose excellence was demonstrated even more in making the scientists of his time to understand their ethical responsibility and leading them on to play a vital role in launching an ethical revolution. Joseph Rotblat dedicated his life for furtherance of peace among nations, and above all the prevention of nuclear wars. He was the main driving force behind the Pug wash movement - the conferences – which bring together from around the world, influential scientists, scholars and public figures concerned with the danger of armed conflicts, to seek solutions for global problems. The stimulus for these conferences was provided by a Manifesto issued by Eimstein and Bertrand Russell in 1955.
The book is a historical review of events of the twentieth century .. not necessarily described in a sequential way. But all the essential information is there. The author has placed all the cards on the table with regard to what happened in the past. How many times in the past has the emblematic clock moved closer to midnight just minutes before the pressing of the nuclear buttons ? How were the probabilities created to prevent the pressing of those buttons ?
Books like this should be in the private libraries of leaders of nations ... no harm will be done if these leaders partake in the Pugwash movement ... but not as members of this or that nation, religion, or creed, but as human beings, whose continued existence is in doubt.Read more ›

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