Conveners
Physics and diplomacy: a chain reaction: Part 1
- Adele La Rana (Università di Verona)
Physics and diplomacy: a chain reaction: Part 2
- paolo rossi (Dipartimento di Fisica Università di Pisa)
My talk will focus on the peace activism of the Italian scientists during the Cold War.
With the beginning of the nuclear age, several scientists claimed a specific role in raising awareness of the perils of their times, both in their countries and at a transnational level. After brief reflections on some prominent international efforts in this field (as Pugwash, established as consequence...
L’evoluzione dell’atteggiamento della comunità dei fisici italiani nei confronti dei problemi suscitati dalle armi nucleari è esaminata con particolare attenzione al passaggio verso una più diffusa consapevolezza collettiva a seguito dei test nell’atmosfera tra la fine degli anni Cinquanta e l’inizio degli anni Sessanta.
The criticism of the use of science and technology for military purposes (especially by the U.S. in the Vietnam War) was one of the transversal themes of the various Radical Science Movements at the national level. On this point have insisted many publications of the time in journals such as Radical Science Journal, Science for the People, Sapere, Survivre et Vivre.
The presence in Europe in...
The talk discusses the changing structures and functions of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) from its re-establishment after World War II until the late 20th century in relation to broad historical processes based on ongoing studies within the IUPAP 100 history project. IUPAP restarted its activities in 1947 after World War II had dramatically altered the social...
This contribution aims at giving a special perspective on the relationships between Italian and German nuclear scientists during WWII. It considers and analyzes for the first time two significant gatherings organized in Rome by the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte: a lecture by Otto Hahn on nuclear fission, in March 1941, and one by Max Planck on the meaning and limits...
