Sir Joseph Rotblat
Nobel Peace Price 1995
Nov. 4, 1908 - Aug. 31, 2005
Sir Joseph Rotblat is dead. We lost a great man, friend, and inspiration.
I heard Sir Joseph speak for the first time in April 1997, when he gave a lecture on the occasion of a visit to the Interdisciplinary Research Group Science, Technology and Security (IANUS) - the INESAP host group - at Darmstadt University of Technology.
With his characteristic smile, quiet voice, and lovely English, at age 89, he answered to a question that, yes, he was confident to live long enough to see the world turn nuclear weapons free. Sadly, he lost his strength before that. But in the course of his life he made a deep impression on many people like me, to whom he conveyed the urgency of the nuclear weapons issue.
We will not forget him, follow his call to remember our humanity and continue Sir Joseph's struggle to rid the world of nuclear weapons.
Regina Hagen
INESAP Coordinator
September 3, 2005
Joseph Rotblat Remembered by David Krieger
Joseph Rotblat Remembered by Götz Neuneck (German version)
For more tributes and obituaries, see Pugwash, In Memory of Sir Joseph Rotblat
Writings by Joseph Rotblat in INESAP Information Bulletin:
- Overcoming the Obstacles to a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World
No.5, April 1995 - The Beginning of the Nuclear Age
No.6, July 1995 - The Nuclear Issue after the Posture Review [pdf version - 447kb]
No.20, August 2002 - Open Letter by Sir Joseph Rotblat to University of California Community [pdf version - 415kb]
No.20, August 2002
Writings on Joseph Rotblat in INESAP Information Bulletin:
- Jürgen Scheffran, Mediator between Past and Future.
Nobel Peace Prize for Pugwash and Joseph Rotblat
[pdf version - 54kb]
No. 7, October 1995 - Science and Nuclear Weapons. Where Do We Go From Here? by Joseph Rotblat [pdf version - 45kb]
No 25, April 2005 - Book Review: War No More by Robert Hinde and Joseph Rotblat [pdf version - 54kb]
No.23, April 2004
Articles by Joseph Rotblat translated by INESAP Coordinator:
- The Nuclear Issue After The Posture Review
EN: The Nuclear Issue After The Posture Review
INESAP Information Bulletin No.20, August 2002
DE: Ein gewaltiger und gefährlicher Umbruch
Frankfurter Rundschau, 6. August 2002 - The Nuclear Issue: Pugwash and Bush Policies
EN: The Nuclear Issue: Pugwash and Bush Policies
53rd Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, Halifax, July 2003
DE: Es wächst die Gefahr, daß ein neues nukleares Wettrüsten beginnt
Frankfurter Rundschau, 5. August 2003
Russell-Einstein-Manifesto issued in London July 9, 1955
Further writings by Joseph Rotblat:
- Message to Inheritors of Manhattan Project
July 12, 2005 - The 50-Year Shadow
New York Times, May 17, 2005 - Remember Your Humanity
An Appeal to Delegates to the Seventh Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Atomic Mirror, May 2005 - Science and Nuclear Weapons. Where Do We Go From Here?
Blackaby Paper No.5, December 2004 - Leaving the Bomb Project
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, August 1985
