ISBN10: 9810231792, ISBN13: 9789810231798, [publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore] Hardcover Minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition
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World Scientific Pub Co Inc 1997 Hardcover Fine

Singapore World Scientific Publishing Co. Plc. Ltd 1997 Presumed First Edition/First Printing Hardcover Very good in very good jacket xvii, [1], 833, [1] pages. Tables. Figures. References. List of Background Papers. Abbreviations and Acronyms, Author Index. DJ has slight wear and, soiling. 40th Anniversary year of the Hiroshima atomic bombing. Sir Joseph Rotblat (November 4, 1908-August 31, 2005) was a Polish physicist. Rotblat worked on Tube Alloys and the Manhattan Project during World War II, but left the Los Alamos Laboratory after the war with Germany ended. His work on nuclear fallout was a major contribution toward the ratification of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. A signatory of the 1955 Russell-Einstein Manifesto, he was secretary-general of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs from their founding until 1973, and shared, with the Pugwash Conferences, the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize "for efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international affairs and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms." Prof. Michiji Konuma is a distinguished theoretical physicist and a former Pugwash Council member. He is Professor Emeritus of Physics at Keio University in Tokyo and a Visiting Researcher at the International Peace Research Institute of the Meiji Gakuin University. He is the former Chairperson of The Special Committee on Nuclear Physics Science Council of Japan. Pugwash seeks a world free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass ...

ISBN10: 9810231792, ISBN13: 9789810231798, [publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co. Plc. Ltd, Singapore] Hardcover First Edition xvii, [1], 833, [1] pages. Tables. Figures. References. List of Background Papers. Abbreviations and Acronyms, Author Index. DJ has slight wear and, soiling. 40th Anniversary year of the Hiroshima atomic bombing. Sir Joseph Rotblat (November 4, 1908 - August 31, 2005) was a Polish physicist. Rotblat worked on Tube Alloys and the Manhattan Project during World War II, but left the Los Alamos Laboratory after the war with Germany ended. His work on nuclear fallout was a major contribution toward the ratification of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. A signatory of the 1955 Russell-Einstein Manifesto, he was secretary-general of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs from their founding until 1973, and shared, with the Pugwash Conferences, the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize "for efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international affairs and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms." Prof. Michiji Konuma is a distinguished theoretical physicist and a former Pugwash Council member. He is Professor Emeritus of Physics at Keio University in Tokyo and a Visiting Researcher at the International Peace Research Institute of the Meiji Gakuin University. He is the former Chairperson of The Special Committee on Nuclear Physics Science Council of Japan. Pugwash seeks a world free of nuclear weapons and other ...