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Brian Cathcart

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's humanity

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.

Britain and the atomic bomb

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.

Polio: a war not yet won

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.