The choice is ours. But we must make it soon. For the time is short. The clock is ticking.
In the annals of history, few speeches have carried the weight of moral urgency quite like Albert Einstein’s 1947 address, "The Menace of Mass Destruction." Delivered in the shadow of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and with the Cold War dawning on the horizon, the father of modern physics stepped out of the laboratory and into the arena of global ethics. albert einstein the menace of mass destruction full speech
By 1947, Albert Einstein was not merely a celebrity scientist; he was a symbol of the atomic age. His famous equation, $E=mc^2$, had provided the theoretical key to atomic energy. While he did not work directly on the Manhattan Project, his letter to President Roosevelt in 1939 had spurred its creation. The choice is ours