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As Andrew Dark brown shows in Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience, Joseph Rotblat's life--from an impoverished child years in war-torn Warsaw to an active later years that helped bring honors and general population recognition, like the Nobel Peacefulness Prize--is a convincing human story in itself. What offers it added value is Rotblat's single-minded dedication to peaceful triggers, particularly his quest for nuclear disarmament. This is actually the first full biography of Joseph Rotblat based on complete access to his private papers. Brown details how Rotblat overcame poverty and anti-Semitism to become nuclear physicist, learning to be a key member of the British team that done the atomic bomb in England and with the Manhattan Project in America. But Rotblat, appalled by the use of atomic bombs against japan and deeply depressed by the brutal fatality of his wife in the Holocaust, soon became one of the perfect architects of the anti-nuclear movement. The book details his post-war activities under the shadow of Britain's nuclear program, his first politics and mass media encounters, his vulnerability of the risks of radioactive fallout, and his companionship with Bertrand Russell. Dark brown demonstrates Pugwash, the anti-nuclear group that Rotblat helped form, eventually founded an invaluable back-channel hyperlink that penetrated the Iron Window curtain. Indeed, it was a Pugwash office that facilitated the first reaching between Gorbachev and Reagan. Gorbachev's security advisers were intensely inspired by Pugwash ideas, especially the concept of non-offensive security in European countries. Rotblat dedicated the previous six ages of his life to peaceful triggers and to efforts to uphold the moral application of technology. In this participating biography, we locate a great man whose serious conscience designed his life and work, and kept an important legacy for future generations.
