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Rotblat, Joseph (20 of 40). National Life Stories Collection:
General C464/17 Nobel Peace Prize-winner and nuclear physicist
Joseph Rotblat in conversation about his life and work. A key
figure in the development of the atomic bomb, he left the US
government's Manhattan Project once it became apparent that Nazi
Germany did not have the capability to build a bomb of its own.
Part 20: JR worked on data from Japanese and explains how he
found reason for difference to his own data. Cockcroft warned
him about publicising his data as Americans might think he is a
spy. But he explains how Cockcroft later advised him on a
formula how to publish his data. His paper appeared in 1955 in
the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. The labour party became
interested, Government tried to stop him to broadcast and he
realised implications of political interference. The beginning
of anti-nuclear movement. Scientists started to think of
conference including Soviet scienti