Milestones Sep. 12, 2005

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DIED. JOSEPH ROTBLAT, 96, Polish-born physicist who quit the Manhattan Project and became a leading critic of nuclear war; in London. A founder of the Pugwash Conferences, a series of cold war--era gatherings of antinuclear scientists from the U.S., the U.S.S.R. and elsewhere, he was a principal author of the group's manifesto, which read, in part, "Remember your humanity, and forget the rest." After decades campaigning for disarmament, he and Pugwash, named for the Nova Scotia town where the group first met, in 1957, were awarded the Peace Prize in 1995.