Table of Contents

1: Growing up in Warsaw
2: Liverpool
3: Paradise Denied
4: The bitterness of victory
5: Stepping off the atomic train
6: Bart's, bikini and the BBC
7: Remember your humanity
8: Pugwash
9: Of mice and Moscow
10: Towards a test ban
11: Eggheads and Warheads
12: Years of eclipse
13: Latent progress
14: Reaching for the impossible?
15: An old man in a hurry

About the Author

Andrew Brown trained and worked as a physician in London and then practised for 20 years as a radiation oncologist in New Hampshire. This is the third biography in which he has explored the careers of scientists, with special attention to the impact of their work on world events. He now plans to return to clinical practice.

Reviews

[it] is a thorough study of a modest, humane and public spirited individual
*Andrew Robinson, History Today*