Albert Einstein The Menace Of Mass Destruction Full Speech [ 2025 ]

It is a question for the human soul.

This is a delusion. A fatal delusion.

When I first sent my letter to President Roosevelt in 1939, I did so out of the deepest fear that Nazi Germany would succeed in building an atomic bomb. We had reason to believe their scientists were capable of such a horror. I acted to prevent a nightmare. albert einstein the menace of mass destruction full speech

You cannot protect yourself against atomic weapons by building more atomic weapons. That is like trying to put out a fire by pouring gasoline on it. The only real protection — the only one — is to ensure that these weapons are never used again. And the only way to ensure that is to abolish war itself. It is a question for the human soul

And we have two bombs now? No. We have many. And soon, other nations will have them too. There is no secret to be kept forever. When I first sent my letter to President

The men in Washington, in Moscow, in London — they are good men, many of them. But they are prisoners. They think in terms of "us" versus "them." They think in terms of borders, armies, alliances. They think that more bombs will make them safe.