"This series of dialogues between two leading ethical thinkers brings together the courage and humanity of Rotblat with the spiritual wisdom and global visionary outlook of Daisaku Ikeda, the leader of the world's largest and most influential lay Buddhist organisation. Together they reflect on fundamental issues of war and peace, the ethics of nuclear deterrence and the trajectory of Joseph Rotblat's career, from the Manhattan Project to the Pugwash Conferences and his Nobel Brize."--BOOK JACKET.1. One world, one table, one will to unring the nuclear bell : Pugwash2. Hiroshima and Nagasaki : from Japan's ground zero to the world3. Living history : to survive, to study when the world is at war4. The conscience of a nuclear physicist : quitting the Manhattan Project5. The power of a name : the Russell-Einstein manifesto6. From Hiroshima to Norway : Pugwash wins the Nobel Prize7. The lie of deterrence, the vision of abolition8. Science and faith : the extension of reason9. Loyalty to humanity : competition with a human face10. Toward a world without war : the United Nations and we the peopleApp. 1. Declaration against nuclear weapons by Josei Toda, second president of Soka GakkaiApp. 2. The Russell-Einstein manifestoApp. 3. The Nobel lecture given by Joseph Rotblat.Notes |