Brian Cathcart is senior lecturer in journalism at Kingston University and a former deputy editor of the Independent on Sunday. Among his books is The Fly in the Cathedral: How a small group of Cambridge scientists won the race to split the atom (Penguin, 2005)

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Joseph Rotblat - nuclear physicist, Pugwash organiser, disarmament campaigner, Nobel peace laureate, eternal Pole, world citizen – has died at the age of 96. Brian Cathcart remembers him.

The British contribution to the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki still affects the country’s nuclear-weapons policy – to the world’s detriment, says Brian Cathcart.

The effort to eradicate polio worldwide is a test of human capacities, but Brian Cathcart reports that the disease is not giving up without a fight.