{"id":115700,"date":"2020-11-10T15:22:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T23:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/kosta-tsipis-mit-physicist-and-prominent-voice-for-nuclear-disarmament-dies-at-86"},"modified":"2020-11-10T15:22:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T23:22:24","slug":"kosta-tsipis-mit-physicist-and-prominent-voice-for-nuclear-disarmament-dies-at-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/kosta-tsipis-mit-physicist-and-prominent-voice-for-nuclear-disarmament-dies-at-86","title":{"rendered":"Kosta Tsipis, MIT physicist and prominent voice for nuclear disarmament, dies at 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/kosta-tsipis-mit-physicist-and-prominent-voice-for-nuclear-disarmament-dies-at-86.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In arguing against nuclear war, Dr. Tsipis said he came \u00ab to believe that reason must prevail. \u00bb<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A curious boy who gazed at the stars from his mountainside Greek village and wondered how the universe came to be, Kosta Tsipis was only 11 when news arrived that the first atomic weapon had been dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the bomb went off, I sent away for a book because I wanted to understand it,\u201d he told the Globe in 1987.<\/p>\n<p>That moment set him on a course toward studying nuclear physics and becoming a prominent voice for disarmament during the Cold War arms race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In arguing against nuclear war, Dr. Tsipis said he came \u00ab to believe that reason must prevail. \u00bb A curious boy who gazed at the stars from his mountainside Greek village and wondered how the universe came to be, Kosta Tsipis was only 11 when news arrived that the first atomic weapon had been dropped [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9,2,219,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-military","category-nuclear-weapons","category-physics","category-treaties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}