Cambridge Scientists' Anti-War Group

The Cambridge Scientists' Anti-War Group (CSAWG) was a left wing pacifist group set up in 1932.[1]

In 1937 responding to concerns about the use of poison gas bombs, the CSAWG organised an experiment in the Trinity College room of John Fremlin to determine the rate at which a gas might leak into a sealed room. The work was published by an editorial committee[2] consisting of

The book was given a hostile review in Nature by retired general Charles Foulkes.[3] Jack Haldane also queried the rigour of the scientific methodology.[4]

Further notable members of CSAWG

References

  1. ^ David Edgerton (2005), Warfare State (Warfare state ed.), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521856361, OCLC 63203065, OL 20652308M, 0521856361
  2. ^ A Group of Cambridge Scientists (1937). The Protection of the Public from Aerial Attack. London: Victor Gollancz: Left Book Club.
  3. ^ Goldsmith, Maurice (1980). Sage: A Life of J. D. Bernal. Hutchinson.
  4. ^ Wilkins, Maurice (2003). Maurice Wilkins: The Third Man of the Double Helix: An Autobiography. Oxford University Press.