Nicholas Kollerstrom

Nicholas Kollerstrom (born 13 December 1946) is an English writer and historian of science. He is a former honorary research fellow in Science and Technology Studies at University College, London (UCL), and a former lunar gardening correspondent for the BBC. He is the author or co-author of a number of books, including Gardening and Planting by the Moon (an annual series beginning 1980), Newton's Forgotten Lunar Theory (2000), Crop Circles (2002), and Terror on the Tube (2009).

Kollerstrom has been involved in the UK as a political activist regarding issues such as the 1982 sinking of the Belgrano by the British Navy during the Falklands War, after which he helped set up the Belgrano Action Group, and the London Bombings of July 2005, which he argues may not have been carried out by the men accused of the attack.

Bio from Nick Kollerstrom's blog

In the early 1980s, I stood as the first Green/Ecology Party candidate in Guildford, and then the Guildford Green Party was run for about twelve years from my house. In the West Surrey Euro-election of 1989 I was the Press Secretary, and the Greens came second, securing 22% of the vote. We beat Labour and the social Democrats.

In 1982 my first book was published, Lead on the Brain, a Guide to Britain’s Number One Pollutant and this was part of a campaign to get lead removed from petrol, which was successful. In the 1980s I did some work in the office of END, European Nuclear disarmament.

As a member of the UK’s Ecology Party, I was initiator for what in 1985 became the ‘Nuclear warfare Tribunal.’ I was sent over to Germany to liase with Die Grunen because we wanted to emulate what they had done. This was the first UK symposium to query the legality of current nuclear weapon policies. (Proceedings published in 1989 as ‘The Bomb and the Law,’ Stockholm)

After the 1982 Falklands war, I and three others formed the ‘Belgrano Action Group’ and we held the ‘Belgrano Inquiry’ at Hampstead Town Hall, about what the war had been about. Top speakers like Tam Dalyell, Clive Ponting and Paul Rogers came and gave evidence. We then published the proceedings of this (by Spokesman Press 1988), as The Unnecessary War: Proceedings of the Belgrano Inquiry, November 7/8th 1986.

I’ve been a founder-member of Inlap, the Institute for Law and Peace, and initiated and edited a few issues of its journal ‘Inlap Times.’ At my suggestion Inlap had the legal proceedings published whereby CND had attempted to challenge the legality of going to war with Iraq. CND spent some 80k on this in 1992 and it seemed worthwhile to remember the effort. I’m thus co-editor of The Case Against War, The Essential Legal Inquiries, Opinions and Judgements concerning War in Iraq.

I’ve been a founder-member of the London 9/11 Sceptics (or the 911 ‘truth’ movement). My web-essay ‘Nine keys to 9/11’ was praised by the prestigious Physics9/11 site, here is their review:

Nine Keys to 9-11

“This website provides an excellent summary of the major problems that knowledgeable people have with the Bush interpretation of 9/11. In this case, the “knowledge” is embedded in nine major points that have no explanation within the Bush scenario: no hikacker names (or faked names) on the official airline passenger lists; hole in the Pentagon too small to have been made by a 757; complete failure of cellphones to operate at cruising altitude; etc. One of the best places for “students” to start. – Nick Kollerstrom” recently these essays have been re-posted on Prof Jim Fetzer’s website (he founded ‘Scholars for 911 truth’).

I worked with a London group especially focused on July 7th, in 2006/7, and contributed two of their web-pages (modified by others),g then in 2008 I worked with a BBC ‘Conspiracy Files’ team for a program about July 7th. (I was thoroughly trashed in this program, through the BBC’s use of quite dishonest techniques – which everyone had warned me would happen)

In 2007 London’s 911 group invited Cynthia McKinney over to England, and she came, that was my initiative and campaign. She then ran as US Green Party presidential candidate. As a postdoctoral Research fellow of UCL for 11 years (1995-2008) in the Science and Technology Studies Department, I was involved in the College’s Stop the War group.