“If I had known, I would be a locksmith” – A. Einstein, on hearing that the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. In 1945, the atomic bomb opened up a new era. Science has granted people a power never existed before. Science brought over 100 thousand deaths in instance in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Science has given the man kind the ability to destroy the world with little efforts. Prof. Chu will briefly introduce the scientists who contribute to the founding of this era, and their reflections on war and weapons.

Mr Simon Shen is Table-host and CEO of RoundTable – Hong Kong Avant-garde Policy Research Institute. He also teaches part-time at the Department of Government and Public Administration, CUHK. He teaches the General Education course “Terrorism and Anti-terrorism” this semester.

Drawing upon different sources from Europe and China, renowned scholar Prof. Leo Lee will talk about how war shaped the creative sensibilities of writers and artists in literature, film and music. The historical context was World War I and II and the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-45.