Ending war : the force of reason : essays in honour of Joseph Rotblat, NL, FRS /
edited by Maxwell Bruce and Tom Milne ; foreword by Freeman Dyson.
- xxiii, 179 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Introduction / The Force of Reason / Eliminating Nuclear Weapons -- Leaving the Bomb Project / Working for a Humane Society / The Road to Zero / Getting to Zero: Too Difficult? Too Dangerous? Too Distracting? / Disinventing Nuclear Weapons / Scientists and the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons / The Social Responsibility of Scientists / Ending War -- Reflections on a War in the Twenty-First Century / From a Nuclear-Free to a War-Free World / The Abolition of War: Realistic Utopianism / The "Moral Equivalent of War" / The United Nations and Peacekeeping / A Bridge to the Twenty-First Century / Of Men, Their Minds and the Bomb / Remember Your Humanity / Freeman Dyson -- Vitalii Goldanskii & Stanislav Rodionov -- Oscar Arias -- Joseph Rotblat -- Mikhail Gorbachev -- Herbert York -- John P. Holdren -- Francesco Calogero -- Iwao Ogawa -- Michael Atiyah -- Robert S. McNamara -- Anatol Rapoport -- Bruce Kent -- Sissela Bok -- John C. Polanyi -- Sandra J. Ionno -- Jasjit Singh -- Joseph Rotblat.
"The year of 1945 saw both the dawning of the age of nuclear weapons and the creation of the United Nations for the maintenance of world peace. Compared with the huge and continuing outlays of time and money on research and development of weapons since that date, little effort has been devoted to ways of ridding mankind of war and its armaments. Ending War contains fifteen essays on this topic, written by world renowned political thinkers and scientists including Robert S. McNamara and Mikhail Gorbachev."--Publisher description.