Article ID: CBB001022694

Bertrand Russell (1872--1970), Man of Dissent (2009)

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Russell argued against the Great War, but he also wanted to drop atomic bombs on the Soviet Union after World War II, and later he advocated nuclear disarmament. How could a great logician accommodate such inconsistencies? How, as a private citizen, did he make such a world-wide impact in his late years?

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Authors & Contributors
Bini, Elisabetta
Anthony Eames
Vezzosi, Elisabetta
Konta, Carla
Ciglioni, Laura
McRae, Kenneth D
Journals
Technology and Culture
Scientia Canadensis: Journal of the History of Canadian Science, Technology, and Medicine
Science and Education
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Chinese Journal for the History of Science and Technology
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Viella
University of Texas at Austin
Viking
University of Washington Press
University of Chicago Press
Concepts
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Science and war; science and the military
Science and politics
Cold War
Political activists and activism
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
People
Russell, Bertrand Arthur William
Heisenberg, Werner
Pauling, Linus Carl
Rotblat, Joseph
Rabinowitch, Eugene
Simon, Franz
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Soviet Union
Canada
Warsaw (Poland)
Institutions
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Strategic Defense Initiative
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Physik, Berlin
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