Frank barnaby biography

Charles Frank Barnaby (27 September 1927 – 1 August 2020) was an.
The nuclear weapons scientist Frank Barnaby, who has died aged 92, became one of the most effective critics of the international arms race.
Charles Frank Barnaby was an English nuclear physicist who served as the Nuclear Issues Consultant to the Oxford Research Group, a freelance defence analyst, and a prolific author on military technology.

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Frank Barnaby

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Scientists, Whistle-Blowers and the Vanunu Affair

Frank Barnaby | | 3 min read

What should scientists and technicians working in a military research establishment do if they come across classified information that they believe should be made public? If they decide to publish information concerning a clear threat to world security, how should the international scientific community respond? Should it assist whistle-blowers if they are put on trial for breaking the country's secrecy laws? The plight of Mordechai Vanunu dramatically raises all these questions. Vanunu, a 33

The Pugwash Conference Turns 30

Frank Barnaby | | 4 min read

On July 7 the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs will be 30 years old. Most international institutions serve their original purpose well for 10-15 years and then decline, but continue to linger on. The more successful the institution, the longer it lingers, perhaps in the hopes that its past successes will be repeated. Pugwash seems to be a case in point. It has already begu

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Frank Barnaby

British nuclear physicist

Charles Frank Barnaby^[1] (27 September 1927 – 1 August 2020)^[2] was an English nuclear physicist who served as the Nuclear Issues Consultant to the Oxford Research Group, a freelance defence analyst, and a prolific author on military technology. He was based in the United Kingdom.^[3]

He was born in Andover, Hampshire, and was educated at Andover Grammar School and the University of London.^[2]

Barnaby trained as a nuclear physicist and worked at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Aldermaston, between 1951 and 1957. He was on the senior scientific staff of the Medical Research Council (UK) when a university lecturer at University College London (1957–1967).

Barnaby was Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) from 1971 to 1981. In 1981, Barnaby became a founding member of the World Cultural Council.^[4] He was a professor at the VU University Amsterdam 1981–85, and awarded the Harold Stassen Chair of International Relations at the Univers

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Frank Barnaby

War Service

Trooper Frank Barnaby was in the 5th Regiment of the Reconnaissance Corps RAC when he died on 27th July 1945 aged 18. He was buried in the Celle War Cemetery, Celle, Niedersachsen, Germany, Plot 2 Row B Grave 5.
Celle War Cemetery, about 25 miles north east of Hanover, was the hospital cemetery of the 64th British Military Hospital and those buried here are mainly servicemen who died of wounds sustained during the last month or so of the war. Family history recalls the truck in which he was travelling was blown up by a land mine.

Family Life

Frank Barnaby was born in the second quarter of 1926 and his birth was registered at Pontefract. He was the son of Albert and Sarah (nee Downey) who married in the first quarter of 1923 and their marriage was registered at Pontefract.

Celle War Cemetery

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