This book provides an outline of the essential provisions of a nuclear-weapon-free world treaty and the inevitable problems of enforcement. It presents the study and debates in wide sectors of the community on the ways and means by which nuclear weapons might eventually be eliminated.
Biography
Joseph Rotblat (UK). Physics. Emeritus Professor at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, University of London. Worked on the atom bomb during World War II in Liverpool and Los Alamos. Signatory of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto. President of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. Jack Steinberger (Switzerland). Physics. Galilean Professor of Physics, Scuola Normale, Pisa. Nobel Laureate in Physics. Former Professor, Columbia University, New York and senior researcher at CERN. Bhalchandra M. Udgaonkar (India). Physics. Emeritus Professor, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Former President, Indian Academy of Social Sciences and Special Adviser and Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission.
