Wednesday September 3rd, 7pm ICA
Living Under the Mushroom Cloud: Joseph Rotblat
Sir Joseph Rotblat, winner of the Nobel peace prize, can be described as a
living conscience of science. A nuclear physicist, he was one of very few to
walk out on the atomic bomb project in the Second World War on conscientious
grounds and he has been a leading voice in the opposition to nuclear weapons
ever since, calling scientists worldwide to a sense of responsibility.
Sometimes behind the scenes and sometimes in public, he has fought for
nearly sixty years on issues such as global fallout, Ronald Reagan's Star
Wars and nuclear proliferation. In conversation with writer Brian Cathcart,
this remarkable eyewitness to the twentieth century talks about his early
life in Poland, his experiences at the Los Alamos bomb laboratory, where the
FBI tried to frame him as a spy, the successes and failures of his long
career as a campaigner and his pressing current concerns about Weapons of
Mass Destruction.
TICKETS AND INFORMATION: 0207 930 3647
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