As director of the Niels Bohr Archive, Finn Aaserud is General Editor of the Niels Bohr Collected Works, published by Elsevier. He has also been involved in several arrangements in connection with Michael Frayn's play Copenhagen, notably a seminar organised by the Niels Bohr Archive in connection with the production of the play in the Danish capital. Aaserud is currently doing research on Niels Bohr's political involvements, which will be the topic of the last volume (volume 11) of the Bohr Collected Works. Among his publications the following is the most relevant as background reading for the symposium: "The scientist and the statesmen: Niels Bohr's political crusade during World War II" in Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 30, 1 (1999), 1-47.