Einstein on Peace“Einstein was not only the ablest man of science of his generation, he was also a wise man, which is something different. If statesmen had listened to him, the course of human events would have been less disastrous than it has been.” This verdict, from the Preface by Bertrand Russell, sums up the importance of this first collection of Albert Einstein’s writings on war, peace, and the atom bomb. In this volume, thanks to the Estate of Albert Einstein, the complete story is told of how one of the greatest minds of modern times worked from 1914 until 1955 on the problem of peace. It is a fascinating record of a man’s courage, his sincerity, and his concern for those who survive him. This book is also a history of the peace movement in modern times. Here are letters to and from some of the most famous men of his generation, including the correspondence between Einstein and Sigmund Freud on aggression and war, and the true story of his famous letter to President Roosevelt reporting the theoretical possibility of nuclear fission. It is the living record of more than forty years of Einstein’s untiring struggle to mobilize forces all over the world for the abolition of war and the creation of a supranational organization to solve conflicts among nations. |
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... conflicts through killing of human beings; he was convinced that, as long as war existed as an accepted institution, the intellectual freedom of the individual—which he considered to be the foundation of human society—could not be ...
... conflicts through killing of human beings; he was convinced that, as long as war existed as an accepted institution, the intellectual freedom of the individual—which he considered to be the foundation of human society—could not be ...
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... conflict. Einstein acted from similar premises when, in the fateful letter written in the summer of 1939, he advised President Roosevelt that the production of atomic bombs had become a distinct possibility, and when he recommended that ...
... conflict. Einstein acted from similar premises when, in the fateful letter written in the summer of 1939, he advised President Roosevelt that the production of atomic bombs had become a distinct possibility, and when he recommended that ...
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... conflicts and which alone would be entitled to maintain a military force; he hoped that the Covenant of the League of Nations and, later, the Charter of the United Nations would, in time, be so modified that an organization capable of ...
... conflicts and which alone would be entitled to maintain a military force; he hoped that the Covenant of the League of Nations and, later, the Charter of the United Nations would, in time, be so modified that an organization capable of ...
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... conflict itself. The war not only created wholesale death and destruction, misery and pain, hunger and privation in the countries at war but caused a profound upheaval in human, political, cultural and scientific relationships ...
... conflict itself. The war not only created wholesale death and destruction, misery and pain, hunger and privation in the countries at war but caused a profound upheaval in human, political, cultural and scientific relationships ...
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... those who are wise and of good will! In such a place even I should be an ardent patriot. Germany's initial military success was facilitated by her violation of Belgium's neutrality, a violation so sharply in conflict.
... those who are wise and of good will! In such a place even I should be an ardent patriot. Germany's initial military success was facilitated by her violation of Belgium's neutrality, a violation so sharply in conflict.
Contents
CHAPTER FOURWAR RESISTANCE I 19281931 78 | |
CHAPTER FIVEWAR RESISTANCE II 19311932 106 | |
CHAPTER SIXTHE EVE OF FASCISM IN GERMANY | |
CHAPTER SEVENADVENT OF NAZISM AND ADVOCACY | |
CHAPTER EIGHTARRIVAL IN AMERICA | |
188 | |
CHAPTER NINEBIRTH OF THE ATOMIC AGE 1939 | |
CHAPTER TENTHE SECOND WORLD WAR 19391945 | |
236 | |
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