Volume 52, Number 17 · November 3, 2005
The Man Who Said No
By Jeremy Bernstein
Joseph Rotblat, who died on August 31 in London at the age of ninety-six, was a distinguished physicist who, after working on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, spent much of his life campaigning for nuclear disarmament. Although I never met him, we had several e-mail exchanges—the final one a few days before his death in a London hospital. I was interested in asking him about the reasons he had left Los Alamos at the end of 1944, before work on the bomb was completed.
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