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.
The work was published by an editorial committee[2] consisting of The book was given a hostile review in Nature by retired general Charles Foulkes.
[3] Jack Haldane also queried the rigour of the scientific methodology.
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