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Einstein's Forgotten Legacy – The Pugwash Conferences

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Pugwash
www.pugwash.org
If you'd like to become a member, find out more, or just send in your comments.

Russell-Einstein Manifesto
www.pugwash.org/about/manifesto.htm
Read the Russell-Einstein Manifesto.

Student Pugwash
www.student-pugwash.org/
Student and young Pugwash groups have been initiated in over 20 countries, co-ordinating a variety of activities on science and world affairs.

Conversation with Professor Joseph Rotblat
www.brc21.org/newsletters/n10-06.html
The scientist and activist discusses nuclear abolition, the Pugwash Conferences and the responsibilities of science.

Edward Teller
'Father of the hydrogen bomb' Edward Teller is accused of trying to arm the US to the teeth, and of helping ruin a brilliant colleague. But after a lifetime of military involvement he remains unbowed.

Science, Social Responsibility and the Atom Bomb
Scientists were mobilised like soldiers in the US campaign to build the atom bomb. This is the story of one of those recruited scientists, Joseph Rotblat, and his endeavours to be an ethical scientist.

Information on international treaties and some related historical information can be found in the links below.

www.nato.int/docu/facts/kacta.htm
Key arms control treaties and agreements (1963 to 1995)

www.state.gov/www/global/
arms/treaties/bwc1.html

Biological Weapons Convention 1972

www.state.gov/www/global/
arms/treaties/cwctext.html

Chemical Weapons Convention 1993

Books

Annals of Pugwash: World at the crossroads: New conflicts, new solutions by Joseph Rotblat (World Scientific Publishing, 1994)
Focuses on the subjects of disarmament, arms control, conflict resolution, peacekeeping and environmental sustainability.
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (Simon & Schuster, 1998)
History of the bomb that includes the key players, the politics and the ethics.
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Nuclear Power: Promise or peril? by Michael J Daley (Lerner Publications, 1997)
An overview of the controversies surrounding the use of nuclear energy as a power source, looking at human energy demands with explanations of how a power plant functions.
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