Keeper of the nuclear conscience : the life and work of Joseph Rotblat / Andrew Brown.

  • Brown, Andrew, 1950 August 12-
Date:
2012
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Physical description

xviii, 347 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-328) and index.

Contents

Growing up in Warsaw -- Liverpool -- Paradise denied -- The bitterness of victory -- Stepping off the atomic train -- Bart's, Bikini, and the BBC -- Remember your humanity -- Pugwash -- Of mice and Moscow -- Towards a test ban -- Eggheads and warheads -- Years of eclipse -- Latent progress -- Reaching for the impossible? -- An old man in a hurry.

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    History of Medicine
    BZP (Rotblat)
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ISBN

  • 9780199586585
  • 0199586586