Cambridge Scientists' Anti-War Group

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

|publisher = Cambridge University Press

|isbn = 0521856361

|ol = 20652308M

|location = Cambridge, UK

|title = Warfare State

|author = David Edgerton

|edition = Warfare state

|date = 2005

|oclc = 63203065

|id = 0521856361

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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{{cite book| title=The Protection of the Public from Aerial Attack| author=A Group of Cambridge Scientists| year=1937| location=London| publisher= Victor Gollancz: Left Book Club}} consisting of

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• J. D. Bernal
• H. A. Harris
• A. F. W. Hughes
• Joseph Needham
• N. W. Pirie
• J. S. Turner
• D. H. Valentine
• E. B. Verney
• C. H. Waddington
• Arthur Walton
• W. A. Wooster

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The book was given a hostile review in Nature by retired general Charles Foulkes.{{cite book| title=Sage: A Life of J. D. Bernal| first=Maurice| last=Goldsmith| year=1980| publisher=Hutchinson}} Jack Haldane also queried the rigour of the scientific methodology.{{cite book|last=Wilkins|first=Maurice|title=Maurice Wilkins: The Third Man of the Double Helix: An Autobiography|year=2003|publisher=Oxford University Press}}