Albert - Einstein The Menace Of Mass Destruction Full Speech

This is not science fiction. This is physics. And physics does not care about our politics.

The atomic bomb has made the old patterns of war obsolete. In the past, nations could fight and lose and survive. The losing army could retreat, surrender, rebuild. But with these new weapons, there will be no rebuilding. There will be no retreat. There will be no surrender, because there will be no one left to surrender. albert einstein the menace of mass destruction full speech

Some will call me a utopian. They said the same of those who worked to abolish slavery, to give women the vote, to end the divine right of kings. Every great advance in human morality was once called impossible. This is not science fiction

I answer: We must think as citizens of the world, not as citizens of any single nation. The atomic bomb has made the old patterns of war obsolete

We scientists have delivered the power into your hands. It is the power to destroy yourselves. What you do with it — whether you rise to the level of your own peril — is no longer a question for physics.

Ladies and Gentlemen,