War No More by Robert Hinde and Joseph Rotblat, Pluto Press, £10.99, ISBN 0745321917 The British Nuclear Weapons Programme 1952-2002 edited by Douglas Holdstock and Frank Barnaby, Frank Cass, £17.50, ISBN 0714683175 Reviewed by Rob Edwards
THESE days it is the moral responsibility of scientists “not knowingly to carry out research that might cause harm to society”, say Robert Hinde and Joseph Rotblat. They argue that the potential risks to humanity of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons are so great that it is wrong to earn a living by developing them.
Morality is a theme that permeates their book War…
