Robert Neild a professor of economics at Cambridge University and a fellow of Trinity College, has held several senior positions in the Civil Service and was the first Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. He is the author of How to make up your mind about the Bomb, published last year.
In landlocked Zambia, then Northern Rhodesia, where I was brought up, oysters were a piece of arcane folklore, one of those memories, precise but inexplicable, of Britain. Oysters were right...
As with the sword or the bow and arrow, making up one’s mind responsibly about the Bomb is not an easy task. For anarchists or pacifists the exercise of violence by state powers throughout...
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