Albert Einstein The Menace Of Mass Destruction !link! Full Speech

We see a world in which the advances of science have outstripped the advances in man’s moral and political organization. The spectacular advances of technology have brought into being a new kind of war—a war of annihilation. The century that has witnessed the invention of the airplane, the radio, the release of atomic energy, has also witnessed two world wars. It has seen the growth of a new kind of slavery—the slavery of the concentration camp—and the invention of weapons of destruction so terrible that the whole future of civilization is threatened.

Yet, Einstein did not stop. He spent the last decade of his life (he died in 1955) fighting nuclear proliferation. He co-chaired the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists alongside Robert Oppenheimer. He continued to write and speak, turning his equation (E=mc²) from a symbol of energy into a symbol of existential risk. albert einstein the menace of mass destruction full speech

There is no applause line. There is only silence and the hum of the radio fading to black. We see a world in which the advances

The answer is simple, though the accomplishment is difficult. We must abolish war. We must establish a world government capable of settling disputes between nations by law and with adequate power to enforce its decisions. It has seen the growth of a new