Joseph Rotblat left Manhattan project; began Nobel Prize-winning disarmament work in Pugwash Nova Scotia

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/oppenheimer-rotblat-pugwash-conferences-1.6927180

* Physicist Joseph Rotblat was only scientist to leave Manhattan Project on moral grounds

* founded Pugwash Conferences: nuclear disarmament organization named for N.S. village where 1st meeting held 1957

Joseph Rotblat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Rotblat

Pugwash Conferences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pugwash_Conferences_on_Science_and_World_Affairs

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