Einstein On Politics : His Private Thoughts And Public Stands On Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace And The Bomb
By: Rowe, David E. (Ed).
Contributor(s): Schulmann, Robert (Ed).
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BookPublisher: Princenton Princeton University Press 2007Description: xxxiv; 523p. 10x6.5 hb.ISBN: 9780691120942.Subject(s): Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955-Political and social views | Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955-Ethics | Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955-ReligionDDC classification: 530.092 Summary: Nothing encapsulates Einstein's profound involvement in twentieth-century politics like the atomic bomb. Here we read the former militant pacifist's 1939 letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt warning that Germany might try to develop an atomic bomb. But the book also documents how Einstein tried to explain this action to Japanese pacifists after the United States used atomic weapons to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki, events that spurred Einstein to call for international control of nuclear technology. A vivid firsthand view of how one of the twentieth century's greatest minds responded to the greatest political challenges of his day, Einstein on Politics will forever change our picture of Einstein's public activism and private motivations.
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Nothing encapsulates Einstein's profound involvement in twentieth-century politics like the atomic bomb. Here we read the former militant pacifist's 1939 letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt warning that Germany might try to develop an atomic bomb. But the book also documents how Einstein tried to explain this action to Japanese pacifists after the United States used atomic weapons to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki, events that spurred Einstein to call for international control of nuclear technology. A vivid firsthand view of how one of the twentieth century's greatest minds responded to the greatest political challenges of his day, Einstein on Politics will forever change our picture of Einstein's public activism and private motivations.
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