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NUCLEAR WAR IMAGINED
RICK MOODY, “The Albertine Notes”
Rev. Liesl Schillinger, “Boomtown,” New
York Times Book Review (June 3, 2007).
. . . . But in “The Albertine Notes,” the
third and longest novella in “Right Livelihoods,” he starts with a shocker that
could come from a future season of “24”: a suitcase
bomb has laid waste to Lower Manhattan .
On “24,” such calamities are met with heroic
pronouncements and redoubled resolve, but Moody’s tale takes place in a
hero-free zone. New Yorkers react to the attack with passivity and denial,
applying their energies (such as they are) to avoiding thinking about the
catastrophe. Both the small screen of “24” and the printed page of Moody’s
fiction confound expectations by showing that the most potent fallout is
emotional, not atomic. What holds the audience hostage is the rubbernecking
impulse: curiosity about how these characters will fare in the aftermath of the
blow.
As always, the battlefield that interests
Moody is interior. Barely possessing the fight to make a fist, his disheartened
survivors sedate themselves with a drug called Albertine (a
just-for-the-sake-of-it nod to Proust). For 25 bucks a pop, Albertine sinks its
users into a consoling stupor, allowing them to relive visions of life before
the blast — a first kiss, a concert, even a moment of sexual betrayal — that
had been searing, perhaps, but not radioactive.
At the story’s outset, Albertine abuse has
reached epidemic proportions. As in “The Plague,” the novella takes the form of
a record kept by a man who observes the epidemic at first hand. Kevin Lee, a
gifted, upper-middle-class Chinese-American touchily introduces himself by
saying that he’s “third generation, which doesn’t mean my dad worked in a
delicatessen to get me into M.I.T. It
means my father was an I.T. venture capitalist and my mother was a
microbiologist.” Kevin didn’t go to M.I.T.; he went to (and dropped out of)
Fordham. And as he attempts to retrace the origins of Albertine for the reader,
his hunt for the woman who gave it her name veers into a surreal maze of
conspiracies linked to identity, memory and time.
Like the narrator of a segment of “This
American Life,” Kevin builds empathy with sauntering stealth. The Albertine
fiends aren’t losers, he argues; they’re people very much like you. “When
you’re used to living a comfortable middle-class life, when you’re used to
going to the organic farmers’ market on the weekend, maybe a couple of dinners
out at that new Indian place, you’re bound to become very uncomfortable when 50
square blocks of your city suddenly look like a NASA photo
of Mars. You’re bound to look for some relief when you’re camped in a school
gymnasium pouring condensed milk over government-issued cornflakes.” It’s
Moody’s genius to know that the horror of a nuclear blast is hardly conceivable
— but condensed milk? Now there’s something to cry over.
Moody wrote “The Albertine Notes” as an
experiment in genre fiction at the behest of Dave Eggers and Michael Chabon,
who edited the edition of Eggers’s magazine that became the anthology
“McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales.” The fact that these three
writers would not only support one another but set one another tasks is a
heartening sign of artistic altruism. Their cooperative impulse is a stroke of
luck for readers.
OPPOSITION TO NUCLEAR WEAPONS
POPE FRANCIS
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For a world free of nuclear weapons
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2013-09-28 L’Osservatore Romano
Published below is the
intervention given on 26 September in New York by the Archbishop Secretary
for Relations with States, during the High-Level Meeting of the United Nations
General Assembly on Nuclear Disarmament
Mr. President,
The General Assembly
resolution calling for today’s High-Level meeting on Nuclear Disarmament
expressed the common conviction that the complete elimination of nuclear
weapons is essential to remove the danger of nuclear war, a goal that must have
our highest priority. The Holy See, which has long called for the
banishment of these weapons of mass destruction, joins in this concerted effort
to give vigorous expression to the cry of humanity to be freed from the specter
of nuclear warfare.
Under the
terms of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, states are enjoined to make “good faith” efforts to negotiate
the elimination of nuclear weapons. Can we say there is “good faith” when
modernization programs of the nuclear weapons states continue despite their
affirmations of eventual nuclear disarmament? Concern over the
proliferation of nuclear weapons into other countries ring hollow as long as
the nuclear weapons states hold on to their nuclear weapons. If today’s
special meeting is to have any historic significance, it must result in a
meaningful commitment by the nuclear weapons states to divest themselves of
their nuclear weapons.
Five years ago, the
Secretary-General offered a Five-Point Plan for Nuclear Disarmament. It is past time for this plan to be given the serious
attention it deserves. The centre-piece is the negotiation of a Nuclear
Weapons Convention or a framework of instruments leading directly to a global
ban on nuclear weapons. This is a clear-cut goal, fully understandable
and supportable by all those who truly want the world to move beyond the dark
doctrines of mutual assured destruction.
It is now imperative for us to address in a systematic and
coherent manner the legal, political and technical requisites for a world free
from nuclear arms. For this reason, we should begin as soon as possible
preparatory work on the Convention or a framework agreement for a phased
and verifiable elimination of nuclear arms.
The chief obstacle to starting this work is continued
adherence to the doctrine of nuclear deterrence. With the end of the Cold
War, the time for the acceptance of this doctrine is long passed. The Holy
See does not countenance the continuation of nuclear deterrence, since it is
evident it is driving the development of ever newer nuclear arms, thus
preventing genuine nuclear disarmament.
For many years, the world has been told that a number of
steps will lead eventually to nuclear disarmament. Such argumentation is
belied by the extraordinary nature of today’s meeting, which surely would not
have been called if the steps were working. They are not. It is the
military doctrine of nuclear deterrence, politically supported by the nuclear
weapons states, that must be addressed in order to break the chain of
dependence on deterrence. Starting work on a global approach to providing
security without relying on nuclear deterrence is urgent.
We cannot justify the continuation of a permanent nuclear
deterrence policy, given the loss of human, financial and material resources in
time of scarcity of funds for health, education and social services around the
world and in the face of current threats to human security, such as poverty,
climate change, terrorism and transnational crimes. All this should make
us consider the ethical dimension and the moral legitimacy of the production,
processing, development, accumulation, use and threat of use of nuclear arms.
We must emphasize anew that military doctrines based on nuclear arms, as
instruments of security and defence of an élite group, in a show of power and
supremacy, retard and jeopardize the process of nuclear disarmament and
non-proliferation.
It is time to counter the logic of fear with the ethic of
responsibility, fostering a climate of trust and sincere dialogue, capable of
promoting a culture of peace, founded on the primacy of law and the common
good, through a coherent and responsible cooperation between all members of the
international community.
Thank you, Mr. President.
JOSEPH ROTBLAT, OPPONENT OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS,
PUGWASH PEACEMAKER, ADVOCATE OF BANNING ALL NUCLEAR WEAPONS
GOOGLE SEARCH AUGUST 10, 2013
Obituary
Sir Joseph
Rotblat
Nuclear physicist and
Nobel peace prizewinner who quit the Manhattan Project and
whose Pugwash initiative helped thaw the
cold war
The nuclear scientist Sir Joseph Rotblat.
Photograph: Guardian/Martin Argles
Sir Joseph
Rotblat, who has died aged 96, was a nuclear physicist and a tireless worker
for peace. When he and his creation, the Pugwash Conferences on Science and
World Affairs were jointly awarded the 1995 Nobel peace prize, some newspapers
identified him only as a "little known" physicist. But scientists in
many disciplines, and officialdom in many countries, knew him well.
Born in Warsaw , Poland ,
Rotblat remained there until the age of 30, during which time he had been
working in nuclear physics. What saved his life was that he had arranged to
spend a year as Oliver Lodge fellow at Liverpool University
with the Nobel prize for physics recipient Professor James Chadwick - the man
who proved the existence of neutrons. This meant that Rotblat, after a short
return visit, left Poland
two days before Hitler invaded his country, otherwise one of the most
extraordinary scientific careers of the 20th century would have been lost.
In the year
1939 came the discovery of nuclear fission in uranium and Rotblat himself
subsequently worked on fission, briefly in Warsaw
and later in Liverpool , where certain basic
experiments were carried out into the feasibility of an atomic bomb.
Inevitably, with the entry of the United States
into the second world war in 1941, and the subsequent move to develop the
A-bomb, he soon found himself at the centre of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos , New
Mexico .
Like a
minority of the scientists involved, he was concerned then about the morality
of working on a weapon of mass destruction, but convinced himself that the
apparent danger of a German bomb justified it. However, unlike those other
scientists, as soon as this danger had clearly disappeared he left the project
and returned to Liverpool
University to resume his
post as a lecturer, and then senior lecturer, in the physics department and
director of research into nuclear physics.
In 1950 he
became professor of physics at London University 's St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical
College . He remained in
the post until 1976 - then becoming emeritus professor. During those years his
professional career was devoted to the application of nuclear physics to
medicine.
But
Rotblat's real life's work was summed up by Bertrand Russell in his
autobiography: "He can have few rivals in the courage and integrity and
complete self-abnegation with which he has given up his own career (in which,
however, he still remains eminent) to devote himself to combating the nuclear
peril as well as other, allied evils."
Rotblat
first took the lead in setting up, in 1946, the British Atomic Scientists
Association (Basa), following meetings between Liverpool and Oxford physicists
who had worked on the Manhattan Project or its British precursor, code-named
Tube Alloys.
Although
Basa was much smaller than its counterpart, the Federation of American
Scientists, it was able to stimulate public debate through its journal, through
public statements and its atom train travelling exhibition. It had adopted a
non-political stance and its list of vice-presidents - all fellows of the Royal
Society - included many of Britain's most eminent scientists as well as
government advisers, and covering almost the whole political spectrum, from
critics of British defence policy like Patrick Blackett to Winston Churchill's
personal scientific adviser, Lord Cherwell.
Unfortunately,
it turned out to be insufficiently non-political for some of the
vice-presidents, following a public statement in 1957 about the danger of
strontium-90 in fallout from nuclear weapon tests. Basa was wound down and
finally dissolved in 1959. Many of Britain 's leading physicists,
including Harrie Massey, Nevill Mott, Rudolph Peierls and GP Thomson, had taken
active roles in it. But Rotblat was its driving force and conscience.
By this
time Rotblat had become active in other directions. He had helped Russell and
took the chair at the launch of the famous Einstein-Russell Manifesto in 1955,
signed by Albert Einstein two days before his death, and by nine other
world-famous scientists, mostly Nobel prizewinners. At the time of his death,
Rotblat was the last surviving signatory. He was a founder member of the
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, launched in 1958, and was briefly on its
executive committee.
Rotblat's
main contribution, nevertheless, was still to come. It was through the Pugwash
Conference on Science and World Affairs, financed by a Canadian-American
industrialist, Cyrus Eaton, which was first held in 1957 at Pugwash, a small
fishing village in Nova Scotia.
Conferences
followed approximately once a year, organised by Rotblat and his friend
Professor Patricia Lindop of St Bartholomew's. The lists of up to 100
participants, from as many as 40 countries, but mostly from Great Britain , the US
and the Soviet Union were a Who's Who of
international science; the list of locations is a map of the world.
Most
significant was the understanding that participants attended as individuals,
not as representatives of governments, though observers from such organisations
as the UN or the UN's educational scientific and cultural organisation Unesco
were welcome. Scientists from both sides of the iron curtain could talk freely
and informally but could, of course, report back to their governments. A
Unesco/Pugwash symposium: Scientists, The Arms Race And Disarmament (1982),
mentions several instances where Pugwash discussions had clearly contributed to
subsequent international agreements.
Rotblat was
secretary-general of Pugwash from 1957 until 1973, chairman of British Pugwash
from 1978 to 1988 and from 1988 to 1997 president of Pugwash worldwide. Its
annals, many edited by him with various collaborators, have provided continuing
and wide-ranging analyses into current problems of disarmament and world
security.
While
working at Los Alamos, Rotblat had been shocked to hear General Leslie Groves,
director of the Manhattan Project, remark quite casually that the real purpose,
of course, was to subdue the Soviet Union .
When he decided to leave the project, a determined but highly incompetent
attempt had been made to "fit him up" as a Russian spy.
It is a
tribute to his universally recognised integrity, and to his skill in treading
delicately though forcefully (he was very much aware of the cost of
respectability as well as of its advantages) that among his many honours from
east - including several from his native Poland - and west was the CBE, awarded
in 1965. No measure of his real contribution, the honour at least signalled
that his help to the British establishment by then outweighed his nuisance
value.
In 1992,
jointly with Hans Bethe (obituary, March 18 2005), he was awarded the much
coveted Einstein peace prize, and in 1995, unusually late in career for a
distinguished scientist, he was elected to the Royal Society. But perhaps the
accolade that meant most to him was the sometime Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev's statement that Pugwash papers and conferences had helped to guide
the foreign policy that had led to the thaw in the cold war.
Rotblat
wrote or edited more than two dozen books and scores of papers, culminating in
the 1995 Nobel lecture - a powerful and moving exposition of the continuing
danger to the world of the existence of nuclear weapons. In it he appealed to
the nuclear powers to abandon cold-war thinking, to his fellow scientists to
remember their responsibility to humanity, quoting the last passage of the
Russell-Einstein Manifesto: "We appeal, as human beings to human beings.
Remember your humanity and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open
for a new paradise; if you cannot there lies before you the risk of universal
death."
Rotblat
continued to work into his 90s with apparently undiminished energy, lecturing
in dozens of cities in Britain
and abroad - including Hiroshima and Nagasaki .
Since his
Nobel prize, he was aware that he was now "somebody" - his own
expression - and spoke out on wider issues. In 1996, he appealed personally to
President Weizman of Israel
to show clemency to Mordechai Vanunu, the former technician who had
"leaked" to the Sunday Times about Israel 's secret stockpile of
nuclear weapons and was then still in prison - in solitary confinement - after
10 years.
Following
the disclosures about cloning experiments, he argued that an international
ethics committee must be set up to monitor developments. He said: "I feel,
however unpleasant it may be for scientists, that science may have to be
controlled. We have got to tackle it because I think the whole future of
mankind is in jeopardy."
Anthony Tucker adds: In accounts of Joseph Rotblat's
important work for the wartime Tube Alloys Project (the British nuclear weapons
programme) at Liverpool University, of his time at Los Alamos, his reasons for
leaving the project and turning to the much harder battle for peace and
disarmament, Rotblat consciously excluded all references to his life before the
war. He called such references "extraneous personal elements", almost
as if his life had begun when he left Poland in 1939.
Yet his
life and attitudes had, by that time, been profoundly affected by isolation,
family disruption and social deprivation. After the turn of the century, his
father built up and ran a nationwide and prosperous horse-drawn transport
business based in Warsaw .
The family owned land and bred horses out in the countryside and, with two
brothers and a sister, Joseph's formative years were initially in a context of
culture, comfort and social esteem.
When he was
five, things changed dramatically for the worse. The first world war turned Europe into a charnel house triggering, among other
things, a wave of antisemitism that swept away his family's business and
position. Rotblat grew up as an increasingly deprived, often hungry and
sometimes physically abused child in the breadlines of a starving nation.
Experiencing first-hand the near-insane intolerance and injustice generated as
a political condition of war, these years forged Rotblat's unswerving ideals of
world peace and of the use of science for the benefit of man and the planet.
In spite of
great difficulties, the family remained together in Warsaw and, by 1918, Joseph was reading
everything he could find, in English as well as Polish and Russian. His
parents, recognising his outstanding intelligence, wanted him to become a
rabbi. But Joseph, with a natural gift for mathematics and a flair for
experiment, was determined to become a scientist.
During the
early interwar years, he scratched a living as a teenage domestic electrician
in Warsaw and, through sheer brilliance - for he
was without formal education -won a very rare free place in the physics
department of the University
of Warsaw . At the same
time he was granted a position as junior demonstrator, which carried a pittance
rather than a salary. In spite of - or perhaps because of his experience of
poverty - he never looked back academically, becoming a research fellow at the
university in 1933 and assistant director of the atomic physics institute at
the Free University of Warsaw from 1937 to September 1939.
During this
period he married but, when he left Poland
for Liverpool University on the eve of the outbreak of
the second world war, his wife was ill.
They
planned that she should follow him to England as soon as she was able. In
the event she was killed, or died in the appalling conditions of the Warsaw
ghetto during the first months of the Nazi occupation, a fact known to British
intelligence in 1941 but not passed on to Rotblat until 1945.
Indeed,
when he left Los Alamos in 1944, Rotblat had planned to return to Poland
immediately after the war in the hope of finding his wife. Instead, in
recognition of the important role Rotblat had played in nuclear weapons
research, the British government agreed to try to find any other survivors of
his family.
Rotblat
thought that his parents would be dead. But his mother, sister and two
brothers, who had escaped from the Warsaw ghetto
to go into hiding or join the anti-Nazi guerrillas in Russia , were found to be alive. By
negotiation and by devious routes, all were brought to England in the postwar years,
cementing Rotblat's loyalty and, through their experiences, reinforcing his
unceasing and single-minded pursuit of an ideal world in which the primary goal
is peace.
In his 90th
year Rotblat might be said to have finally entered the public consciousness by
appearing on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.
In 1998, he surprised some of his
friends by accepting a knighthood at the level (Knight Commander) usually
associated with establishment figures such as lords lieutenant or permanent
secretaries. But all will have appreciated the words of the citation: "for
services to international understanding".
· Anthony Tucker died in 1998. His contribution has been revised and updated.
· Anthony Tucker died in 1998. His contribution has been revised and updated.
· Joseph Rotblat, nuclear physicist and
peace campaigner, born November 4 1908; died August 31 2005
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