"Is Peace Possible? [is] perspectival and prophetic, [written] in the middle of the Cold War that never erupted into the nuclear holocaust it could have been . . . Here we are, survivors of an abated apocalypse, here to tell its story: the story of the triumph of the possible over the probable, the triumph of peace."
–Maria Popova, from the Foreword
"Kathleen Lonsdale, X-ray crystallographer, pacifist and prison reformer, was an outstanding scientist who had a number of firsts for female scientists to her name, including being one of the first two women elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, first female tenured professor at University College London (UCL), first woman president of the International Union of Crystallography and first woman president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science . . . A dedicated pacifist, she grew increasingly worried about the role science was being asked to play in military developments and helped to found the Atomic Scientists' Association. She further helped to establish the Pugwash Movement, which worked towards ending armed conflict, and was a member of the Quaker East-West Committee. She published extensively on pacifism, her most notable book being Is Peace Possible? (1957)."
–Brian May, The Irish Times
