Joseph Rotblat was interviewed by Edward Goldwyn and Harry Kroto in 2002 (series 1 consisting of 9 videos) and 2005 (series 2).

Born in Warsaw in 1908, Joseph Rotblat has had an incredible career spanning nuclear, radiation and medical physics, and international affairs. He worked on the Manhattan Atomic Bomb project during the second world war and then uniquely, quit the project a few months before the war ended when it became clear that Germany would not be able to develop nuclear weapons of its own for use against the allies.

Here you can watch Tape 6.  It is unedited but shows the depth of this interview.  Starting with Teller, Rotblat goes on to tell us how he managed to turn his life around from a period of total despair to the beginnings of the formation of Pugwash.

This video is available in the following formats:

Videos to come include: A child during the war, frozen potatoes (Tape 1) Swapping age with his sister (Tape 3) Leaving Los Alamos, accusations of spying (Tape 5) Bertrand Russell, Albert Einstein, and the birth of Pugwash (Tape 7) The "Lucky Dragon" and the 3 stage bomb (Tape 7) Reading from the Russell-Einstein Manifesto (Tape 8)

He later worked on medical radiation physics and co-founded the Pugwash organisation, a series of conferences focusing on science and world affairs. In 1995 Pugwash and Rotblat were jointly awarded the Nobel peace prize for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms.

In 2002 he was still extremely active in politics and world affairs, as well as the work of Pugwash.

This recording was made possible through funding from the Eugene Garfield Foundation. Vega is extremely grateful to the foundation for their help and support.