Book Review;Nuclearwarfare;Conscientious objector
书评;核战争;良心反对者;
Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience: The Life andWork of Joseph Rotblat.
持有核良知的人:约瑟夫罗特布拉特的工作与生活;
Many of the scientists who worked on theManhattan Project, America s programme to buildan atom bomb during the second world war, hadmisgivings about their work. After the detonationof the first test bomb in 1945, Robert Oppenheimer,the programme s director, later claimed to have recalled a line from Hindu scripture: I ambecome death, destroyer of worlds. His colleague Kenneth Bainbridge was pithier: nowwe re all sons of bitches, he muttered.
在二战期间从事原子弹制造的曼哈顿计划中,有很多科学家对自己所做的事情满怀忧虑。1945年第一课原子弹试爆之后,该计划的执行官罗伯特奥本海默引用了印度经文的一句话:我将成为死神,万物的毁灭者。 而他的同僚肯尼斯 班布里奇更为直截了当:如今我们都是狗杂种了。
Joseph Rotblat, a Polish-born physicist, had stronger reservations than most. He had beendisturbed to overhear the American general in charge of the project admit that the realpoint was not to pre-empt the Naziswhose own atomic-bomb project had got nowherebutto intimidate the Soviets, the Americans wartime allies. In 1944 Rotblat left the programmeto return to Britain, where he had taken refuge from occupied Poland, and resolved to puthis expertise to more humane use. He swapped theoretical physics for the medical kindand began a life of vigorous opposition to nuclear weapons. A friendship with BertrandRussell, a British philosopher, led to the founding of the Pugwash conferences on nucleardisarmament.
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