What Would Einstein Say To Scientists Today?
“Today, the physicists who participate in watching the most formidable and dangerous weapon of all time…cannot desist from warning and warning again: we cannot and should not slacken in our efforts to make the nations of the world and especially their governments aware of the unspeakable disaster they are certain to provoke unless they change their attitude towards each other and towards the task of shaping the future.” Despite Einstein’s call for the complete abolition of all nuclear weapons, scientists today are researching and developing a new generation of these indiscriminate weapons of mass murder. As world citizens, we must follow Einstein’s example and assume our paramount responsibility of calling upon all scientists, elected officials and world leaders to publicly renounce nuclear weapons, immediately negotiate a treaty for their complete elimination and instead find a peaceful means for settling all matters of conflict.
