Rotblat, Joseph, c1908-2005.

A quest for global peace : Rotblat and Ikeda on war, ethics, and the nuclear threat / Joseph Rotblat and Daisaku Ikeda. - London ; New York : I. B. Tauris, c2007. - xv, 157 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

One world, one table, one will to unring the nuclear bell : Pugwash -- Hiroshima and Nagasaki : from Japan's ground zero to the world -- Living history : to survive, to study when the world is at war -- The conscience of a nuclear physicist : quitting the Manhattan Project -- The power of a name : the Russell-Einstein manifesto -- From Hiroshima to Norway : Pugwash wins the Nobel Prize -- The lie of deterrence, the vision of abolition -- Science and faith : the extension of reason -- Loyalty to humanity : competition with a human face -- Toward a world without war : the United Nations and we the people.

1845112784 (hbk.) 1845112792 (pbk.) 9781845112783 (hbk.) 9781845112790 (pbk.)

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Nuclear nonproliferation.
Peace.
War--Moral and ethical aspects.

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