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. However Jack Haldane queried the rigour of the scientific methodology.[2]

Notable members of CSAWG

References

  1. David Edgerton (2005), Warfare State (Warfare state ed.), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521856361, OCLC 63203065, 0521856361
  2. Wilkins, Maurice (2003). Maurice Wilkins: The Third Man of the Double Helix: An Autobiography. Oxford University Press.